Review Request 128605: [kmail] Fix jump lists by renaming org.kde.{kmail => kmail2}.desktop
Andreas Sturmlechner
andreas.sturmlechner at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 14:18:47 GMT 2017
> On Feb. 19, 2017, 4:42 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > Can we push this to master then? I just came up with the same patch in https://phabricator.kde.org/D4668
Thanks for doing this, I can close that RR then.
- Andreas
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On Aug. 4, 2016, 9:29 p.m., Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 4, 2016, 9:29 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDEPIM and Laurent Montel.
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> Repository: kdepim
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> Description
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> Currently broken because WM_CLASS is set to 'kmail2' which does not correspond with desktop file.
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> some IRC log:
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> Sho_: let me give you some context
> Sho_: Plasma's Task Manager contains a complicated heuristic that tries to find out what app a window belongs to, working off of window and process metadata
> Sho_: it's necessary to e.g. pin an app as a launcher based on a window, or to group windows belonging to the same app, or fetch jump list actions from the .desktop file
> Sho_: because kmail sets bad metadata, the heuristic works only as far as being able to find the executable - that's enough to store a launcher, which then points at the executable and uses a base64 serialization of the window icon as icon for it
> Sho_: but since it can't find the .desktop file, it can't e.g. show jump lists (or grab the right icon from the icon theme based on icon name)
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> Diffs
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> kmail/src/CMakeLists.txt 3df422d731393263f00ff26c35e62e47ec851d6f
> kmail/src/data/org.kde.kmail.appdata.xml
> kmail/src/data/org.kde.kmail.desktop
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128605/diff/
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> Testing
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> builds and runs, now also has jump lists (if kmail is started standalone)
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sturmlechner
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