Bug 247292 - esc's autostart .desktop file fails to start under a KDE session
Summary: esc's autostart .desktop file fails to start under a KDE session
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: esc
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jack Magne
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-06 18:19 UTC by Niko Mirthes
Modified: 2008-06-17 01:49 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:49:06 UTC
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Patch allowing esc's autostart file to start as expected under a KDE session (420 bytes, patch)
2007-07-06 18:19 UTC, Niko Mirthes
no flags Details | Diff

Description Niko Mirthes 2007-07-06 18:19:01 UTC
Description of problem:
The esc systray 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 esc.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.

I've also run desktop-file-validate against esc.desktop and removed the 
invalid 'Application;' and 'SystemSetup;' the tool complained about. It also 
seemed appropriate to add 'Monitor;' as per the Desktop Menu Specification 
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/).

Comment 1 Niko Mirthes 2007-07-06 18:19:01 UTC
Created attachment 158678 [details]
Patch allowing esc's autostart file to start as expected under a KDE session

Comment 2 Jack Magne 2007-07-09 23:09:41 UTC
Thanks very much for the report and patch.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:26:28 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:49:05 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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