Hi, I'm experimenting a bit with the KDesktopFile class, but I'm not able to make it work:

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KDesktopFile desktopFile("/usr/share/apps/solid/actions/test-predicate-openinwindow.desktop");
kDebug()<<desktopFile.readName();


executing it I get a distressing "", even if the file, I checked, has the field "Name=Open with File Manager". I tried even with

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kDebug()<<desktopFile.desktopGroup().readEntry("Name");


with no result.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

If you try the following does anything get output?

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kDebug() << "Test" << desktopFile.desktopGroup().name();

yes, it works, but it is not the "Name" field, but the name of the KConfigGroup, so it says "Desktop Entry"

It is possible that KConfigGroup is trying to read the internationalised entry, which language do you have specified for KDE global settings?

I've set US English, so it shouldn't be that, even because I can't read other fields, like Icon, that are not dependent on the language used.

In the application, have you constructed a KApplication instance?

it is not an application. I took the code of the device notifier plasmoid and I'm modifying it a bit.

It should be fine then...
How are you testing your changes? By using plasmoidviewer? Or are you just loading it into Plasma itself?

it doesn't matter, i tried both. maybe, since i'm using trunk, it is a bug.
now that i'm thinking about it i'll go and see the code of quicklaunch that reads the .desktop in order to set the icons, since it works here.

It seems like KDesktopFile has some problems with the files like the ones in /usr/share/apps/solid/actions/. i tried with /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop and it works.
so i have to understand why it does this silly thing, since i need to read the solid ones.

ok, i solved.
obviously it was a stupid thing: these files have a group [Desktop Action open] and i have to get that KConfigGroup and read the entries from there.

so here is the result of all my efforts: Device Manager :-D