Re: [PATCH 3/3] mergetool-lib: give kdiff3 prioirty in KDE environments

["Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail@3v1n0.net>]

Il giorno mer 5 ago 2020 alle ore 23:16 Eric Sunshine
<sunshine@sunshineco.com> ha scritto:
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:02 PM Marco Trevisan (Treviño) via
> GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > mergetool-lib: give kdiff3 prioirty in KDE environments
>
> s/prioirty/priority/
>
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
> > @@ -288,12 +288,15 @@ list_merge_tool_candidates () {
> > -               cross_desktop_tools="opendiff kdiff3 tkdiff xxdiff"
> > +               cross_desktop_tools="opendiff tkdiff xxdiff"
> >                 if is_desktop "GNOME"
> >                 then
> > -                       tools="meld $cross_desktop_tools $tools"
> > +                       tools="meld $cross_desktop_tools kdiff3 $tools"
> > +               elif is_desktop "KDE"
> > +               then
> > +                       tools="kdiff3 $cross_desktop_tools meld $tools"
> >                 else
> > -                       tools="$cross_desktop_tools meld $tools"
> > +                       tools="$cross_desktop_tools kdiff3 meld $tools"
> >                 fi
>
> Wouldn't this change the behavior for people running old KDE which
> doesn't have XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, giving "kdiff3" much lower priority
> than it had before?

Yeah, true.. So to avoid this we can just also check for
KDE_FULL_SESSION, that has been introduced by KDE 3.2, and this should
be enough I think.

> This change also illustrates why I wasn't convinced that patch 2/3 was
> necessarily a good idea. When you touch 'cross_desktop_tools' here,
> you end up having to touch all the other 'tools=' lines anyhow, so the
> introduction of 'cross_desktop_tools' didn't buy much in terms of
> reduced maintenance cost.

Yeah, I had the same feeling, TBH.

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