How do you set environment variables in your desktop file? That's how apps get launched on the device and my experiments of adding command line envvars to the Exec= line were unsuccessful.
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014, Christian Dywan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06.08.2014 01:53, Alejandro J. Cura wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Alex Chiang <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Zoltán Balogh > >> <[email protected] <javascript:;>> 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 >
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