Autostart scripts (ksmserver problem)

[Jeremy Whiting]

Martin,

After further testing yesterday evening it seems placing scripts
(executable files) in ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ works fine.
These also correctly appear in the autostart kcm. The only confusion
left that I see is that scripts placed into ~/.config/autostart appear
in the kcm, but we aren't launching them, so shouldn't show those in
the kcm in my opinion.

BR,
Jeremy


On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Martin Yrjölä <martin.yrjola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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