From kde-devel  Fri Jan 19 12:53:28 2007
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:53:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Autostart management in KDE3
Message-Id: <200701191353.29036.faure () kde ! org>
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On Friday 19 January 2007 12:59, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'd like to have an application autostarted on session login and
> figured that installing a desktop file in $(prefix)/share/autostart is
> the best way to do that.
> 
> The problem with this approach is, that I want to give the user the
> ability to disable the application from autostarting and I found no
> convenient method to do that.
> Does KDE3 provide mechanisms to achieve that?
> Will I have to code this logic myself and if so, what's the best way to do it?

The .desktop file can have a line like
X-KDE-autostart-condition=kmyapprc:General:Autostart:true
which means that it will only autostart if kmyapprc doesn't have, in the [General] group,
Autostart=false.
Then you can have a checkbox or a messagebox in your application to let the user
choose whether the app should be autostarted.

See http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kinit/README.autostart?rev=438982&view=auto
for more details.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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