KNewStuff3 .knsrc file fails to load under Windows

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

xmlgui files can be included, kconfig stuff, too.

xmlgui should have documented it in the headers.

For kcfg and notifyrc I am not sure (nor do I know what they do ;=)

Greetings
Christoph

----- Am 1. Jul 2016 um 12:15 schrieb Jasem Mutlaq mutlaqja at ikarustech.com:

> Hi,
> 
> Ok great. Besides icons, which files can be included in the resources file and
> what prefixes to use? Is there documentation for this? We currently have this:
> 
> install(FILES kstars.kcfg DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_KCFGDIR})
> install(FILES kstars.knsrc DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_CONFDIR})
> install(FILES kstarsui.rc DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_KXMLGUI5DIR}/kstars)
> install(FILES fitsviewer.rc DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_KXMLGUI5DIR}/kstars)
> install(FILES kstars.notifyrc DESTINATION ${KNOTIFYRC_INSTALL_DIR})
> 
> Regards,
> Jasem
> 
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Christoph Cullmann < cullmann at absint.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> same answer as for icons: KConfig was patched by me to search inside resources,
> too.
> Just bundle your file as resource, works for KTextEditor framework, avoids any
> file
> lookups.
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> ----- Am 30. Jun 2016 um 22:41 schrieb Jasem Mutlaq mutlaqja at ikarustech.com :
> 
>> Ok, so I found the source of this problem. In kconfig.cpp #719 we have:
>> 
>> Q_FOREACH (const QString &f, QStandardPaths::locateAll(resourceType, fileName))
>> {
>> files.prepend(f);
>> 
>> For the KNewStuff3, the resourceType is GenericConfigLocation which on Linux is
>> ~/.config and /etc/xdg. Since the "kstars.knsrc" file is in /etc/xdg, this
>> works fine on Linux. On the other hand, on Windows, the GenericConfigLocation
>> is
>> 
>> "C:/Users/<USER>/AppData/Local", "C:/ProgramData"
>> 
>> But kstars.knsrc is install to $KDEROOT/etc/xdg or $APPIMAGEDIR/etc/xdg, so this
>> is why it fails to load it. Not sure how to resolve this issues besides
>> patching KConfig to add $XDG_DIR to be searched as well for that file. Any
>> thoughts?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jasem
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Jasem Mutlaq < mutlaqja at ikarustech.com > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Found a new bug today when KStars KNewStuff3 was started. The error is
>> "Configuration file kstars.knsrc is invalid".
>> 
>> KNewStuff3 sends the filename as "kstars.knsrc" which is under Windows is
>> installed to $KDEROOT/etc/xdg and also to $APPIMAGEDIR/etc/xdg
>> 
>> Traced problem with KConfigPrivate::changeFilename() where it checks if the file
>> path is absolute and when it fails it creates a new file. Hence, it then fails
>> to read any contents. The resource type (GenericConfigLocation) doesn't appear
>> to be used to find the absolute path of the file.
>> 
>> How to resolve this issue?
>> 
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Jasem Mutlaq
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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