Bug 184220

Summary: dbus example points into non-existing krunner method - find a more stable example
Product: [Unmaintained] khotkeys Reporter: Steffen Jost <steffenjost>
Component: generalAssignee: Michael Jansen <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: alexander.lohnau, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Steffen Jost 2009-02-13 13:32:26 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

It is very confusing that the example in  "Examples" -> "Perform D-Bus Call"-Action does not work at all!

(Of course it is disabled, being an example, but I mean that the "TRY"-Button in the "D-Bus Call Settings"-Tab does not do anything, since the settings are simply wrong. Note that the "TRY"-Button works if proper values are entered.)

_This_is_problematic_, since D-Bus Actions in "System Settings" -> "Advanced" -> "Shortcuts" have a different naming convention than the values shown by the D-Bus Browser (helpfully offered through a button in the "D-Bus Call Settings"-Tab).

So it took me a while to find out that, e.g.

Remote Application = org.kde.plasma
Remote Object      = /App
Called Function    = local.PlasmaApp.toggleDasboard

where the correct values required to show the Dashboard (which I bound to a mouse gesture), since the D-Bus Browser does not have "Application" or "Object" written somewhere. Therefore a working example would be useful (and is easy to achieve anyway). Thanks!
Comment 1 Steffen Jost 2009-02-13 13:50:29 UTC 
NOTE: It is especially confusing that the D-Bus Viewer writes "App/" while the Remote Object Field requires the entry "/App".

How is the user supposed to know that the Slash has to be swapped?
Comment 2 Michael Jansen 2009-02-17 00:31:28 UTC 
Sorry for the confusion ... We (I am) busy trying to get khotkeys really work. I will fix this.
Comment 3 Steffen Jost 2009-02-17 01:44:28 UTC 
No trouble! ;) Actually it seems to work just fine otherwise, at least I did not notice anything else not working with it. THANKS!

It is very nitpicky with the mouse-gestures though. I have to repeat a gesture several times until it is recognised. However, I have not used mouse gestures before, so I might be just to stupid for that feature.

What I also do find confusing is the sorting of the global shortcuts by KDE component (under Keyboard&Mouse). How am I supposed to know which component is responsible? But that may not be related to khotkeys, or is it?