> On June 25, 2014, 1:12 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > Just to recap why it was decided to make it start by the plasma shell and 
> > to actually remove the autostart file (part of Ivan's Gsoc last year):
> > krunner being present or not is something that depends from the shell ux, 
> > and one shell can decide to not have krunner, and even stopping it if it's 
> > already running (active, for instance)
> > (also, the only reason it actually made sense to split the system monitor 
> > for it, increasing overhead)
> > relying again on autostart files it forces krunner on every shell, having a 
> > process that may not be used at all.
> >
> 
> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     I do not understand your comment about "having a process which may not be 
> used at all". Without this patch, krunner will always be started.
>     
>     Could you propose an alternate solution for the bug?
>     
>     I can think of the following options -
>     1. We delegate this problem to the future when we actually get shells 
> which do not want krunner, at that time maybe they can close it.
>     2. We modify the "Platform.Application" class to take a dbus-interface 
> name, and check it is registered. Only then should it start the process.
>     
>     I think (1) is a more desirable solution right now, but that's just me.

IIRC krunner installs a dbus service and can be started by the dbus daemon - 
use this as solution (3). If we just ask dbus to start krunner when needed it 
won't be started again when it's already running.


- Martin


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On June 25, 2014, 12:58 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated June 25, 2014, 12:58 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Plasma.
> 
> 
> Repository: plasma-desktop
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
>     PlasmaShell: Do not start krunner
> 
>     Krunner is automatically started via an autostart file. We do not need 
> plasma to
>     start it as well. Without this patch, krunner comes into focus each time
>     plasma is restarted since krunner is already running and executing it
>     then gives it focus.
> 
>     BUG: 336002
> 
> This patch depends on another patch in plasma-workspace/krunner which adds 
> the krunner.desktop file -
> 
> commit 1b570623b1e8df93f20940654e160b35570172ac
> Author: Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in>
> Date:   Wed Jun 25 11:38:49 2014 +0200
> 
>     Add a KRunner autostart file
> 
> diff --git a/krunner/CMakeLists.txt b/krunner/CMakeLists.txt
> index 8e625b9..4197827 100644
> --- a/krunner/CMakeLists.txt
> +++ b/krunner/CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ target_link_libraries(krunner
>  
>  install(TARGETS krunner ${INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
>  install(FILES ${krunner_dbusAppXML} DESTINATION 
> ${DBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR} )
> +install(FILES krunner.desktop DESTINATION ${AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR})
>  
>  set(CMAKECONFIG_INSTALL_DIR 
> "${CMAKECONFIG_INSTALL_PREFIX}/KRunnerAppDBusInterface")
>  ecm_configure_package_config_file(KRunnerAppDBusInterfaceConfig.cmake.in
> diff --git a/krunner/krunner.desktop b/krunner/krunner.desktop
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..2f1f6dc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/krunner/krunner.desktop
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +[Desktop Entry]
> +Exec=krunner
> +Name=KRunner
> +OnlyShowIn=KDE;
> +Type=Application
> +X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
> +X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.krunner
> +X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
> +X-KDE-autostart-phase=0
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   desktoppackage/contents/loader.qml c1ac4a4 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118933/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vishesh Handa
> 
>

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