Review Request 126618: Make CMake macro kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json() work on windows.

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On Jan. 3, 2016, 3:22 nachm., Alex Richardson wrote:
> > According to the documentation AppLocalDataLocation is the following: "C:/Users/<USER>/AppData/Local/<APPNAME>", "C:/ProgramData/<APPNAME>", "<APPDIR>", "<APPDIR>/data"
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> > In which directory are the desktop files? Unfortunately I can't check as my Windows machine broke a while back and I haven't compiled KF5 on Windows since.
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> > Patch looks good to me otherwise as it will still check the same directories change behaviour on Linux. Only minor issue is that the error message is a little bit confusing now.

hi, same problem occurs on mac, too, i think a better fallback would be something install prefix relative, that would work on win + mac.


- Christoph


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On Jan. 3, 2016, 1:22 nachm., Kåre Särs wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 3, 2016, 1:22 nachm.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcoreaddons
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> Description
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> Without this patch kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json() will not find the destop file.
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> On windows GenericDataLocation returns "C:/Users/<USER>/AppData/Local" or "C:/ProgramData". That is not a path that contains any destip files ;)
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> This patch adds AppLocalDataLocation to the seach if the previous search does not return a match. 
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> Another option would be to hardcode the absolute path to all places that uses kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json(), but that does not feel too nice...
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> What other options do we have?
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> Diffs
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>   src/lib/plugin/desktopfileparser.cpp 1122af8 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126618/diff/
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> Testing
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> KTextEditor compiles again on windows
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> Thanks,
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> Kåre Särs
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