Using plasmapkg to install the tiger plasmoid

[Richard Dale]

I've been trying out plasmpkg with installing the tiger javascript plasmoid
in the playground, and there were some things that needed fixing before I
got it working.

In the plasmapkg code I needed to uncomment the constructor for the
KApplication, and also remove code that was assuming that only the list
option would have no args:

Index: main.cpp
===================================================================
--- main.cpp    (revision 823864)
+++ main.cpp    (working copy)
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@
     options.add("packageroot <path>", ki18n("Absolute path to the package
root. If not supplied, then the standard data directories for this KDE
session will be searched instead."));
     KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions( options );

-    //KApplication app;
+    KApplication app;
     //QCoreApplication app;

     //TODOs:
     //   implement list

     KCmdLineArgs *args = KCmdLineArgs::parsedArgs();
-    if (args->count() == 0 || args->isSet("list")) {
+    if (args->isSet("list")) {
         listPackages();
     } else {
         // install and remove

Then I could run the command:

$ plasmapkg --install /tmp/tiger --type plasmoid

In package.cpp, the code that actually installs the package as a complete
directory was calling KIO::file_copy() for a sinIgle file, and not
KIO::copy() for a directory copy. I also added errorString() calls for the
error messages when something like this went wrong. I'm not a KIO expert and
possibly copy() is still the wrong call.

Then I got a crash with the code to look up the Icon from the KConfigGroup,
and I haven't been able to track down what's causing that yet:

    QFile icon(packageRoot + cg.readEntry("Icon"));
    if (icon.exists()) {
        ...

Once I commented that out, a
.kde4/share/kde4/services/plasmapkg_plasma_applet_tiger.desktop was
installed and the plasmoidviewer found the plasmoid and started it. I didn't
have the svg installed that it was expecting, and so it didn't actually work
but obviously that doesn't really matter.

-- Richard
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