Review Request: Make sure ksmserver ignores excluded apps when saving session

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This review has been submitted with commit 7a99d5708f9ba2bedbc197c740f8b64f81c6f575 by Jekyll Wu to branch KDE/4.9.

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On Dec. 9, 2012, 7:50 a.m., Jekyll Wu wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 9, 2012, 7:50 a.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs, Plasma and Luboš Luňák.
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> Description
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> It is easy to understand why the existing code (usually) fails: 
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>   * Users are most likely to just specify short names, like "dolphin,gwenview,okular,rekonq", instead of "/usr/bin/konsole,/usr/bin/gwenview,/usr/bin/okular,/usr/bin/rekonq"
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>  * When ksmserver saves the session, it usually gets the full names, like "/usr/bin/dolphin", unless you have started that dolphin instance by typing "dolphin" exactly in a shell. 
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> So there are four possible combinations :
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>   1). config uses short name, runtime gets short name (this guy starts everything from konsole, never using kio/krun)
>   2). config uses short name, runtime gets long name (I think this is the most common one)
>   3). config uses long name, runtime gets short name 
>   4). config uses long name, runtime gets long name (I guess some users use this combination because they find only that way works after trying various workaround...)
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> The existing code works with 1) and 4), the patch now works  with 1), 2) and 4) . I don't know whether it make senses to support all combinations .
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> This addresses bug 242760.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242760
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> Diffs
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>   ksmserver/server.cpp a65b35a 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107276/diff/
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> Thanks,
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> Jekyll Wu
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