Review Request 125648: Add method to run a script from DBus directly

[Marco Martin]

> On Oct. 19, 2015, 10:43 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > is true that for a shell script would already be possible to poke with the config file..
> > but wouldn't this be a bit too much of a security hole/open invitation for anybody, script or app to poke in the desktop configuration without the user being aware of it?
> 
> David Edmundson wrote:
>     How is this any different to the look and feel scripting you've literally just pushed?

It continues to rub me a bit the wrong way..
but let's try this, we can eventually add a bit of treatment of input if need arises.


- Marco


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On Oct. 15, 2015, 5:22 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 15, 2015, 5:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> loadScriptInInteractiveConsole requires user interaction which blocks
> some purposes, like setting the desktop background from an app.
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> This runs a given script directly from a passed string without any prompts.
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> CCBUG: 217950
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> Questions:
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> I also toyed with returning the value of a script as a QDBusVariant, thoughts?
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> Should I not run if widgets are locked?
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> Diffs
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>   shell/dbus/org.kde.PlasmaShell.xml cf2d0bbfcdb5720bf19d42403ee8c7fd542adecd 
>   shell/shellcorona.h 0e6fe041787b2f75d791b38661b63614e27d33bf 
>   shell/shellcorona.cpp 37d05347d67b7178db4d29a1ac368aacaacf0c0a 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125648/diff/
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> Testing
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> Ran this:
> var allDesktops = desktops();
> print (allDesktops);
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> for (i=0;i<allDesktops.length;i++) {
>     d = allDesktops[i];
>     d.wallpaperPlugin = "org.kde.image";
>     d.currentConfigGroup = Array("Wallpaper", "org.kde.image", "General");
>     d.writeConfig("Image", "file:///home/david/pictures/Wallpapers/northern_lights-wide.jpg")
> }
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> also ran some with errors, that behaved as expected too.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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