On Tuesday, 2011-01-18, gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 01:06:45 pm Kevin Krammer did opine: > > Another option would be to take the KMail.desktop file (which is used by > > the laucher menu, etc), copy it to the respective user local path (see > > kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps) and modify it so its "Exec" line runs > > this wrapper script. > > That file should already exist in my user/Desktop tree, shouldn't it? Humm, > no it's not there, nor does there appear to even be a .kde in ~/user? > FWIW, this is pclos, 32 bit install running on a quad core phenom. So yet > another diff I just found. The .desktop files are usually just installed globally (e.g. /usr/share/...) by the respective package. User local ones are either created by non-root executed installers or when need to user local modification arises. kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps lists a $PATH like directory list that will be searched for .desktop file. > I have not attempted to do this as yet, not knowing how qdbus would react > if kmail was not running. I was considering just putting its invocation > into the bottom of my rc.local as I know how to do that, and already have > several such items fired off that way now. That has been done nbow, but > I've not rebooted. Ah, I missed that option in my other reply. Generally a qdbus invocation for a D-Bus name, object path or method that does not exist will just fail. There are an exception though: packages can install D-Bus .service files (look a lot like .desktop files) which basically allow D-Bus to start an application if the D-Bus name is part of a call. As far as I know there is no such file for KMail so a call to org.kde.kmail will just fail if KMail is not running. You can easily test that by quitting KMail and running the mail check trigger command manually. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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