Alternative to LaunchApp extension in QML2 palsmoids

[Marco Martin]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Adrián Chaves Fernández
<adriyetichaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to execute an application with some parameters from a plasmoid.
>
> I found out that in the pre-KF5 version of Plasma, there was a plasmoid
> extension called LaunchApp that you could enable on the metadata.desktop
> file, and provided funtions on the "plasmoid" global JavaScript variable
> such as "runCommand", which is precisely what I want.
>
> However, this extension does not seem to work on the QML2 API, and it is
> certainly not listed on the Techbase pages for QML2.
>
> How do you run a command from a QML2 plasmoid?


It actually needs a C++ part..
there is a KRun import in kdeclarative, support may be added there

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Marco Martin