On 06.08.2014 01:53, Alejandro J. Cura wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Alex Chiang <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Zoltán Balogh >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Exciting news from the SDK Lab! >>> >>> If you like it short just read this -> >>> >>> UI ToolKit: >>> 1) We have a decision to go with the Qt.Labs Settings API, the QML API will >>> be released on the image and in the click chroots soon >> Hopefully docs will be updated too. If you attempt to use this module >> in an app today, it will attempt to store the app's config in: >> >> ~/.config/qt-labs.org/applicationName.conf >> >> (as observed on 14.10 desktop) >> >> Of course, this is not allowed on the phone due to AppArmor confinement. >> >> The documentation here: >> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qsettings.html#platform-specific-notes >> >> makes it seem like we should be hitting case #2 for Unix: >> $HOME/.config/MySoft.conf >> >> but that is not what I observe. >> >> Additionally, I can't seem to set my app's organization either, to try >> and make it hit case #1: >> >> Qt.application.organization: "com.canonical.achiang" >> >> But then I see an error on the console: >> >> Non-existent attached object >> >> Finally, in general, it would be nice if the SDK provided some way for >> Ubuntu apps to work better with AppArmor settings. As per: >> >> http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/apps/security-policy-for-click-packages/ >> >> --- >> The application will have read/write access files in the standard XDG >> base directories. Specifically: >> >> XDG_CACHE_HOME/<APP_PKGNAME> >> XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<APP_PKGNAME> >> XDG_DATA_HOME/<APP_PKGNAME> >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/confined/<APP_PKGNAME> >> --- >> >> However, reading environment variables from QML is prohibitively hard >> (requires a C++ plugin). It would be better if the SDK provided >> helpers for those specific variables so apps don't have to write a >> plugin just to read those variables. >> > I find it weird that this would need to be done by manually reading > env vars, and that Qt.Labs.Settings is not using > QStandardPaths::ConfigLocation, which already takes XDG_* env vars > into account. > Perhaps it's a missing feature there? > > cheers, I'm a very practical person. Just try this (example attached):
env APP_ID=uitk XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp qmlscene settings.qml
Et voilá the settings go where you expect them.
For the same reason there's no issue with apparmor.
ciao,
Christian
import QtQuick.Window 2.1
import Qt.labs.settings 1.0
Window {
id: window
width: 800
height: 600
Settings {
property alias x: window.x
property alias y: window.y
property alias width: window.width
property alias height: window.height
}
}
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