Ok --- I
grabbed the sources. After I sanitize them for the TQt layer, how
do I merge them with a parent package? Or would we host the module in the
applications sources?
Files would go in tdebase/kcontrol/autostart/ Copy a
CMakeLists.txt file from any other folder in the tdebase/kcontrol/ directory
into your new tdebase/kcontrol/autostart/ directory. Then edit
tdebase/kcontrol/autostart/CMakeLists.txt so that the source
file names, .desktop file name, and library name are all correct for the
new autostart module. Finally, edit tdebase/kcontrol/CMakeLists.txt
and add a new line "add_subdirectory( autostart )" where it makes sense.
Um, golly gee willikers, Mr. Wilson. I actually got the module to build!
For the moment I am building as a separate package that would get merged to the
applications tree. I started to fiddle with merging directly into tdebase/kcontrol but
then got unsure about what to strip from the original sources. Further, I wondered whether
everybody would want this module, although we could add a -DWITH-AUTOSTART build option.
Anyway, I figure we can merge to tdebase later, but for now we need to ensure the sources
build and develop a usability test plan.
According to the original
kde-look.org descriptions
(
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=45975), there does not seem to be much to
this module. Just a graphical way to add or remove apps, which is a notch better than the
previous methods KDE3 required.
I used the Ubuntu sources, which came with a large Ubuntu/Debian patch, which merged
without error (after updating one line for TDE). I don't know whether that patch fixed
any of the known bugs listed at
kde-look.org. Therefore the test plan includes testing
those reported bugs.
The docbook file is merely a template.
Test plan:
* Installs correctly to TDE Components.
* If the user's Autostart directory is already populated, verify those items appear in
the modules list.
* Can add new apps to the list.
* Those newly added apps actually start with the next new session.
* Previously populated apps still start with the next new session.
* Can remove apps from the list.
* Apps not removed still start with the next new session.
* Bug: When launching apart for kcontrol, clicking "Cancel" with a properties
dialog open will generate a crash.
* Bug: When launching inside kcontrol, option "Reset" does not work.
* Bug: Clicking "Reset" with a properties dialog open inserts a duplicate entry
into the list of the entry which has the properties open.
* What else?
Darrell
