We want to find things that don't have their own explicit unit and create a .service from the .desktop file.
Gnome has a flag to attach to .desktop files that says there is a systemd unit for it already and they don't need to activate it explicitly in other ways
We need to also work out how to install generators on a per desktop basis so we don't conflict with gnome. Or maybe we could even share this.
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | davidedmundson | T11914 Merge plasma-systemd-integration | ||
| Resolved | davidedmundson | T12627 Create a generator for all remaining .desktop files and user scripts |
A FOSDEM meeting said we would try and create a common generator which will ship with systemd
This would source all .desktop files
Anything with
X-Only-In: KDE
would create services in the kde.target.wants folder
same for gnome etc.
anything without that line would be in the desktop.target.wants folder
our final target will want both kde and desktop targets
This is being upstream in systemd by Ben from Gnome
We will just need to add some targets later.
Generator is here:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15226/files
We need to add a KDE part to that to support X-KDE-Autostart-Condition
Plan is to map it to
ExecCondition=kde-systemd-start-condition "argFromAutoStartCondition"
we need a binary that takes that argument which is in the form "baloorc:General:IndexingEnabled"
Open the config, call readEntry
Then return 0 or 255 depending.