Rex Dieter wrote:
Your suggestion is one possible implementation, but ...
the way it currently works is that the autostart .desktop file includes a special key to conditionally start or not.
for example, korganizer's korgac.desktop includes:
X-KDE-autostart-condition=korgacrc:General:Autostart:true
which means it'll only start if ~/.kde/share/config/korgacrc [General] section includes a key Autostart=true
The problem is that X-KDE-autostart-condition will NOT work on all the non- Plasma desktops that read /etc/xdg/autostart! Heck, it won't even work in Plasma 5 because Plasma 5 does not use ~/.kde. This was fine while the file was in /usr/share/autostart, but now this feature won't work anymore.
Kevin Kofler