On Wednesday 29 January 2014 12:47:02 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dimecres, 29 de gener de 2014, a les 09:25:47, David Faure va escriure: > > On Saturday 25 January 2014 16:36:22 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > El Dissabte, 25 de gener de 2014, a les 10:20:20, David Faure va escriure: > > > > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 18:38:28 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > > > kdeoptions and qtoptions manpages listed the common options to > > > > > applications > > > > > using kdelibs4 and qt4. > > > > > > > > > > These have just become kf5options and qt5options. > > > > > > > > > > But which options are still true? > > > > > > > > > > --caption caption > > > > > > > > > > Use caption as name in the titlebar. > > > > > > > > Ah, this is a kde4support thing (kcmdlineargs). > > > > If we think this is useful, we should add it to Qt. > > > > Is it useful? > > > > > > > > > --icon icon > > > > > > > > > > Use icon as the application icon. > > > > > > Isn't this kind of mandated by the desktop entry spec that says that %i > > > will be translated to --icon? > > > Besides ./kio/src/core/desktopexecparser.cpp seems to use it. > > > > You're somewhat right. Note that the .desktop file for an app doesn't have > > to use %i, if the app doesn't support --icon. > > > > I can see the idea of the feature, using the Icon field in the .desktop > > file for both menus and the app window icon, but my question is whether > > it's really used/useful in practice. In my kde4 applications dir, I see > > 16 .desktop files using %i, plus the 14 .desktop files for okular but > > that's just one app, so 17 apps in total. However, I suspect that most of > > these would work just the same without %i, since they use the default > > icon name anyway (e.g. > > ktorrent.desktop, Icon=ktorrent). > > Plus, the apps need a good default icon anyway, for the case where they > > started another way (e.g. from the command line). > > Sure, ok, forget the .desktop scenario, the real useful scenario is the same > than -caption and is actually starting something from a command line and > giving it a custom icon, like let's say, konsole or kdialog but you pretend > they are something you created for your own command line program. > > Does that make more sense?
Yep. BTW, --qwindowtitle is in and --qwindowicon will soon be ( https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,82796 ) (with --title and --icon aliases on X11 for compatibility, but better use the portable names) -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
