Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 247284
bluez-gnome's autostart .desktop file fails to start under a KDE session
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:09 EST
Description of problem: The blues-gnome applet fails to open when starting a KDE session. As far as I know, this will be changed via a patch, allowing KDE to look in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart (/etc/xdg/autostart). I've made some minor changes to bluetooth-applet.desktop to allow it to start successfully under a KDE session. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a KDE session Actual results: Note that the foo.desktop files placed in /etc/xdg/autostart aren't seen when KDE starts and the apps they reference are not started. Moving them to a location where they are seen by a KDE session results in undesirable behavior. Expected results: The desktop files in the system-wide autostart directory should start without major issues. Additional info: The attached patch adds: StartupNotify=false X-KDE-autostart-after=panel StartupNotify allows the applet to start under a KDE session without displaying KDE's app start up notification icon. X-KDE-autostart-after=panel allows the applet to start after KDE's panel (kicker), preventing a race between the panel and the applet. Lastly, the desktop file's 'Categories=' entry was empty. I've added some useful entries for consistency with the other desktop files found in the autostart directory.
Created attachment 158675 [details] Patch allowing bluez-gnome's autostart file to start as expected under a KDE session
+StartupNotify=false +X-KDE-autostart-after=panel Those seem to make some sense. But why would it *fail* to start under KDE without those?
Sorry, I should have made things more clear. As it stands right now, KDE 3.x.x doesn't implement the XDG autostart specification and therefore won't open desktop files placed in /etc/xdg/autostart. I've spoken with Rex Dieter about this and it was decided at a recent SIG meeting that KDE would be patched to rectify the problem. I've filed bugs against the packages I have installed that place desktop files in this directory. The bug description is meant to be general and in anticipation of the patch to KDE. I should say the applet fails to start amicably if the files are placed in one of KDE's autostart directories ($KDEDIRS/autostart and $KDEHOME/Autostart) without those two entries. Without StartupNotify, KDE's user-visible application start notification(s) are displayed, which is undesirable for an automatically started systray applet. Without X-KDE-autostart-after=panel, the applet may fully open before the panel.
Ha! so it still works, but doesn't look good, right? If so, I'll push it upstream (minus the Categories changes which I don't think are useful at all).
Right. Great, thanks. Yeah, it doesn't appear in any menus. I guess I got a bit carried away while reading the desktop menu spec.
Posted at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/13354 We'll pick it up in the next version of bluez-gnome. Thanks for the patch!