Adrelanos, adrelanos wrote, On 04/02/2013 04:10 PM: > There is an Ubuntu Package kde-settings-lowfat. The creator of that ... > At the bottom is a list of settings I can hardly make head of tail of. I > am not asking to tell me what each any any values do, I am just asking > about the best approach to learn all those things. ... > didn't help. I assumed to phrase a configuration file which contains > "[Module-kwrited]" you must somewhere use the word "kwrited" in the > sources and at least by reading the source I should get an idea what it > does, but I also don't find references for it in "kwrited", so I am > really lost on how to find reliable information.
I think we all are. Unfortunately, useful documentation seems to get sparser and sparser in the brave new world we live in. > Please tell me how I can find best information about these settings. > > Cheers, > adrelanos I'm going to spew some stuff that is probably 90+% true, and may not necessarily be the best way to determine this stuff, but hopefully is at least useful. > /kde/share/config/kdedrc > > [Module-bluedevil] > autoload=false ... kded is the "KDE Daemon", http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kded/html/index.html each of these "Module-*" group identifiers represent a service adjunct daemon that 'kded' is responsible for starting. In the cases you reference, the 'autoload' key is being set to "false", indicating that 'kded' won't start those auxiliary processes. (presumably to reduce startup times, memory consumption, additional opportunities for bugs to bork your session...) You can get *some* idea of what the currently loaded kded modules do by this dbus call loop: # figure out where the KDE4 system services directory *probably* is d=$(kde4-config --path services); d=${d##*:}; ** i reference value of '${d}' in other examples below... # get each loadedModule from 'kded' for module in $(qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadedModules) #look in the associate service .desktop for a comment do printf "%32s - %s\n" "$module" "$(grep '^Comment=' ${d}/kded/${module}.desktop | sed -e 's/^Comment=//')" done e.g.: networkstatus - Tracks status of network interfaces and provides notification to applications using the network. remotedirnotify - Provides change notification for network folders soliduiserver - Provides a user interface for hardware events powerdevil - Battery, Display and CPU power management and notification .... or get them all with: for dt in ${d}/kded/*.desktop; do \ printf "%32s - %s\n" "$(basename "${dt}" .desktop)" \ "$(sed -ne '/^Comment=/{s/^Comment=//;p}' "${dt}")"; done or, 'man kded4' seems to have much of this as well. As for the 'krunnerrc' [Plugins] group, same sort of deal: > /kde/share/config/krunnerrc > > [Plugins] > PowerDevilEnabled=false > bookmarksEnabled=false ... > windowsEnabled=false services files with "X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Runner" are the plugins listed above. The configuration key: "X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault" defines if that plugin is enabled or not. $ for dt in $(grep -l X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Runner $d/*.desktop); do t=$(basename ${dt} .desktop); printf "%32s - %s\n" "${t}" "$(sed -ne '/^Comment=/{s/^Comment=//;p}' $dt)"; done browserhistory - Searches in Konqueror's history CharacterRunner - Creates special characters from their hexadecimal codes katesessions - Matches Kate Sessions konquerorsessions - Matches Konqueror Sessions ... plasma-runner-windowedwidgets - Find Plasma widgets that can be run as standalone windows plasma-runner-windows - List windows and desktops and switch them recentdocuments - In general, google searching for "KConfig <key-name> <application>" "kcfgfile <key-name> <application>" might get you something useful. Another thing i often have to do is : $ rsync -axWS ~/.kde/ /var/tmp/${USER}-kde/ run a kcmshell4 / system-settings UI and toggle or change something, then: $ kompare ~/.kde/ /var/tmp/${USER}-kde/ (or diff -hwbr ~/.kde/ /var/tmp/${USER}-kde/ ) to figure out what KConfig key values changed in the process. unfortunately, the converse (change a value and dig through UI screens is MUCH more work ;} btw, you can generally put SYSTEM LEVEL overrides in /etc/kde4/... $ cat /etc/kde4/nepomukserverrc [Basic Settings] Start Nepomuk=false overrides the Start setting for nepomuk. Good luck. --stephen ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
