KNewStuff3 .knsrc file fails to load under Windows

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Yes that did work great, thanks! Now KNewStuff and also icons are loading
properly!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at absint.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >> Jasem Mutlaq
> >>
> >>
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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
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