AppMan: Implement support for a DESKTOP_FILE_HINT env var, with same purpose as desktop_file_hint
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qtmir (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Fact: the --desktop_
But many applications (rightly) exit at startup when supplied with a command line parameter they do not support .
For Qt upstreaming, we want to be able to run the existing QTestLib-based tests against QtMirCompositor. But they all currently quit due to the --desktop_file_hint switch.
Adding support for an environment variable DESKTOP_FILE_HINT with the same purpose as the command line switch would fix this issue.
There are also places on Ubuntu which (ab)use --desktop_file_hint to avoid having to launch their tests with upstart. I want to flush these out, so eventually removing support for this switch would achieve that - so this env var would be handy fallback for us.
description: | updated |
tags: | added: qt-upstream |
Changed in qtmir: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
affects: | qtmir → qtmir (Ubuntu) |