Autostart scripts (ksmserver problem)

[Martin Yrjölä]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> IMO we have two problems here.
>
> 1. the autostart kcm is showing scripts from ~/.config/autostart which
> kinit doesn't start. since ~/.config/autostart is an xdg path that is
> only meant to start .desktop files we probably shouldn't be showing
> scripts in the kcm that we don't start.
> 2. Users with scripts in ~/.kde/Autostart will want a place to
> drop/move their scripts when moving to plasma-next. One solution to
> this would be to loudly document that each script needs a .desktop
> file created to actually launch it (easily done in the autostart kcm).
> Another probably better solution would be to define a place where
> ksmserver would look and execute or source scripts such as
> ~/.config/ksmserver-autostart or something.
>
> I'll work up a patch for 1 tomorrow, as that shouldn't be hard to not
> show those files.
>
> Thoughts?
> Jeremy
>

Hi Jeremy!

There's a ticket about this were I'm assigned
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338242

I haven't made big strides on this issue as I have been terribly busy.
It would be wonderful if you can come up with a patch to solve the
issue.

The proposed solutions in the ticket is to move all autostart
functionality from kinit to ksmserver and after that add support for
scripts. However I also like your solution of introducing a
~/.config/ksmserver-autostart directory that is managed by the
autostart kcm and then the scripts are launched at the appropriate
time in plasma-workspace/ksmserver/startup.cpp.

Do you want to step up and get the ticket assigned to you Jeremy?

Best regards,
Martin Yrjölä