Add a workaround to get "run on device" with Ctrl+F12 working again

[David Planella]

After the migration to CMake, the functionality to quickly run an app on the device with Ctrl+F12 got broken because the Qt Creator script expects a .desktop file to be present. With CMake, the .desktop file is only generated at build time from a .desktop.in (or desktop.in.in) file, and since we don't execute any build steps with the script, it is never created and thus the script fails.

After having talked to the SDK guys, my understanding is that there won't be a fix coming any time soon, so I'd recommend to an easy workaround by simply committing a static .desktop file to the code. This way we'll keep the Ctrl+F12 script happy and we'll be able to easily run on device again without any manual steps to generate the .desktop file first.

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

dpm, why can't qtcreator just reference the new file?

[David Planella (dpm)]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> dpm, why can't qtcreator just reference the new file?
>
>
Can you be more specific? Which new file?

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> Title:
> Add a workaround to get "run on device" with Ctrl+F12 working again
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> Bug description:
> After the migration to CMake, the functionality to quickly run an app
> on the device with Ctrl+F12 got broken because the Qt Creator script
> expects a .desktop file to be present. With CMake, the .desktop file
> is only generated at build time from a .desktop.in (or desktop.in.in)
> file, and since we don't execute any build steps with the script, it
> is never created and thus the script fails.
>
> After having talked to the SDK guys, my understanding is that there
> won't be a fix coming any time soon, so I'd recommend to an easy
> workaround by simply committing a static .desktop file to the code.
> This way we'll keep the Ctrl+F12 script happy and we'll be able to
> easily run on device again without any manual steps to generate the
> .desktop file first.
>
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[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Nevermind, I think this approach is fine. Sorry!

[brian larochelle (larochelle-brian)]

it looks like this may require a change to:
/usr/share/qtcreator/ubuntu/scripts/qtc_device_run_app

likely related to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu/+bug/1276790
problem and possible solution detailed here:
https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg07176.html

i would be willing to contact that sdk team see if i can resolve their bug and then come back to this bug.

please let me know if that sounds acceptable and i'll get started.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

In the old clock app, we have circumvented this issue by committing a static desktop file. Hence marking it as fix released. In the new clock app, that is not required.

[David Planella (dpm)]

On file manager app, the migration to a CMake project a while ago fixed it, thus closing the task.

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-calendar-app at revision 340, scheduled for release in ubuntu-calendar-app, milestone alpha-1