Runners and their configuration

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, October 21, 2011 00:16:04 Jan Gerrit Marker wrote:
> I'm currently investigating the issue that some runners
> (AudioPlayerControl, Kill, Spellchecker) do not honor their
> configuration.
> It seems that the config() function of AbstractRunner does create a
> KConfigGroup depending on the X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name which is
> set in the desktop file. But when creating the KConfigGroup in the
> code of the configuration interface the runners use another name
> as the one set for X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name. They use the name which they
> set objectName of the runner to.
> 
> So my question is whether I should fix the plugins that they use
> X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name as the group name in the configuration
> interface's code (should I set the objectName of the runner to
> X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name in that case, too?) or whether I should change
> X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name that it matches objectName (are spaces allowed
> for that entry?). If I changed the configuration interfaces' code I
> would probably need to write kconfig_update files, wouldn't I?

I'd say change it to whereever the actual config has been written to, in order 
to not break existing setups (lose their config). I don't know krunner 
internals very well, though.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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