[Kde-pim] Review Request: Argument support for application/script reminders (korgac)

[Allen Winter]

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Ship it!


I never thought about a program name having spaces.. I guess we do need to worry about that.  good work.

- Allen


On 2009-02-28 16:34:22, Sergio Martins wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-02-28 16:34:22)
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> Review request for KDE PIM.
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> Summary
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> Currently arguments aren't being passed to the external application configured in the reminder, they are ignored.
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> We have 2 choices:
> QProcess::startDetached( QString program, QStringList arguments ) or
> QProcess::startDetached( QString programAndArgs )
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> Calling QProcess::startDetached( alarm->programFile(), alarm->programArguments().split(" ") ); would work for normal cases, but wont if you have arguments with spaces, e.g. ./myProgram "a b c" has only 1 argument not 3.
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> With the second variant, QProcess::startDetached( alarm->programFile() + alarm->programArguments() ) Qt will do the right thing and respect arguments with spaces, but on the other hand the program name can't have any spaces.
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> My patch uses the second variant and escapes the program name if it has spaces.
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> I think I have all angles covered.
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> This addresses bug 125546.
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125546
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdepim/korganizer/korgac/alarmdialog.cpp 933368 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/208/diff
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> Testing
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> my program arg1 arg2 -> calls my program and passes 2 args
> myProgram "arg1 arg2" -> calls myProgram and passes 1 arg with content "arg1 arg2"
> myProgram a b c -> calls myProgram and passes 3 args, a, b  and c
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> Thanks,
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> Sergio
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