> On None, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > I'm cool with this; please commit. However, it would be really nice if you > > could continue to work on this. It's really not a *huge* amount of work and > > would change this from "cool hack" to "solid feature" =) > > Conor Sullivan wrote: > I don't have a svn account yet... I guess I start the application process > in the next couple of days since I'm actively contributing. Also, I'll try > to learn the kde style conventions, since apparently Allman style isn't > appropriate here! :D > > Also, I'll keep thinking about expanding it to be more complete.
Any news on this? - Alex ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/47/#review38 ----------------------------------------------------------- On None, Conor Sullivan wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/47/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Review request for Plasma. > > > Summary > ------- > > Adds a context menu action on kickoff to have an application start on > startup. This line is the key line: > + KIO::copy(url, KGlobalSettings::autostartPath() ); > > This feature could in the future be expanded to detect when a program is > already started on login, and then change to "Don't start application on > startup". This is significantly more complicated. > > It would not be difficult (and I think a good idea) to add a similar patch to > the "properties dialog" for .desktop files. The user could click a button > and have that program start on login. > > Edit: so I've been asked to elaborate on my future ideas. I'm sorry if I'm > not very clear. > Basically, if you have a application that already starts on login, its a bit > silly to have a context menu to that offers to start it on login. To fix > these, we need to write code that searches for the application in the major > autostart directories, .kde4/autostart, .kde4/share/autostart, xdg autostart, > and possibly others. Then we would need to find a way to compare the > .desktop files and detect a match. > > If a match is found, we change the action to be "Don't start this application > on login". > > I also mentioned a possible addition to the properties dialog for .desktop > files. If would could implement the above, we could create a check box that > says "Start on login"... you check the box, and the file is copied to > .kde4/autostart... you uncheck the box, and that file is removed. > > I'm not promising to do all this, its just speculative. > > > Diffs > ----- > > > /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/kickoff/ui/contextmenufactory.cpp > > Diff: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/47/diff > > > Testing > ------- > > Compiles and seems to work here. > > > Thanks, > > Conor > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
