[Konsole-devel] Review Request: Add the possibility of "run scripts in konsole" when using dolphin

[Jekyll Wu]

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Review request for Dolphin, Konsole and David Faure.


Description
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@David, I'd like to know your idea of this workaround, because I think its usefulness will influence or be influenced by how bug 275405 will be finally resolved. 


The current situation of clicking an executable shell script in dolphin/konqueror:

1. It is always executed, instead of being opened by the preferred application according to its mimetype. (bug 275405)

2. It is executed in a silent way, without invoking konsole to provide a running environment (bug 225563). That means at least two issues:

    a). There is no feedback and no easy way for user to know whether that script has been started. He/She need use ps or ksysguard to verify it.

    b). interactive script just doesn't work.


This patch *doesn't* really solve any of the above two problems. It just provides the possibility for users to run an executable script in konsole when using dolphin/konqueror.

It adds two .desktop files: 

    applications/kde4/run-in-konsole.desktop, which can be used in the "Open with" submenu
    ServiceMenus/konsolerun.deksotp, which can be used in the "Actions" submenu

I'm not sure which solution is better, so I just provide both :)


Known issue: 

using application/x-shellscript means this workaround only applies to shell scripts, so it does not provide help for perl/python scripts.  But using applicaiton/x-executable means it will also apply to binary executables.  So :

    * Does it make sense to provide that workaround for binary executable? It is of course valid, but might be seen as overkill and strange in practice.

    * Is there something called application/x-executablescript, that falls between the range of x-executable and x-shellscripts ?

    * Should application/x-desktop be also added into "MimeType"? 


As you see, this patch in the current form is still a rough idea.


This addresses bugs 225563 and 275405.
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225563
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275405


Diffs
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  desktop/CMakeLists.txt 0fe39d2 
  desktop/konsolerun.desktop PRE-CREATION 
  desktop/run-in-konsole.desktop PRE-CREATION 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107086/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Jekyll Wu

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