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[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2011-01-18, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 01:06:45 pm Kevin Krammer did opine:

> > Another option would be to take the KMail.desktop file (which is used by
> > the laucher menu, etc), copy it to the respective user local path (see
> > kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps) and modify it so its "Exec" line runs
> > this wrapper script.
> 
> That file should already exist in my user/Desktop tree, shouldn't it? Humm,
> no it's not there, nor does there appear to even be a .kde in ~/user?
> FWIW, this is pclos, 32 bit install running on a quad core phenom.  So yet
> another diff I just found.

The .desktop files are usually just installed globally (e.g. /usr/share/...) 
by the respective package.
User local ones are either created by non-root executed installers or when 
need to user local modification arises.

kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps

lists a $PATH like directory list that will be searched for .desktop file.

> I have not attempted to do this as yet, not knowing how qdbus would react
> if kmail was not running.  I was considering just putting its invocation
> into the bottom of my rc.local as I know how to do that, and already have
> several such items fired off that way now. That has been done nbow, but
> I've not rebooted.

Ah, I missed that option in my other reply.
Generally a qdbus invocation for a D-Bus name, object path or method that does 
not exist will just fail.

There are an exception though:
packages can install D-Bus .service files (look a lot like .desktop files) 
which basically allow D-Bus to start an application if the D-Bus name is part 
of a call.

As far as I know there is no such file for KMail so a call to org.kde.kmail 
will just fail if KMail is not running.
You can easily test that by quitting KMail and running the mail check trigger 
command manually.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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