I got a comment by mail from Fredrik Hedberg:

The best.desktop file that ships in the beagle tarball is for running
Best from the application menu, thus it has the --no-tray argument.

So, as i understand it, we need a designated .desktop file for autostart
in KDE, which will make best run in the tray instead of popping up a
window.

What spec's do you want for that .desktop file?

Thanks, 

/Fredrik

SuSE RPM of beagle has beagled.desktop, which is IMHO the correct desktop file
for starting best in Autostart. Note that this desktop file is not a part of
official source. FOr more see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310151#c6

beagled.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=beagled --bg
Name=Beagle Daemon
Terminal=false
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

That should be the correct way to start the beagle daemon.

However, besides that you will also have to make sure that Best is launched, and
given that Danny reported that Best was running with the --no-tray argument,
somehow KDE must be launching the best.desktop automatically too.

The best.desktop that is shipped in the beagle tarball is for launching it from
the menu (and thus opening a new window), and we'll have to ship another one for
autostarting, which will run it in the tray.

Is there any good reason why we should start beagle or/and mono-best with KDE by 
default? I can't see a usecase where a KDE program use beagle atm. I think we 
should never start beagle with autostart in KDE (only if started first time by 
user and the user requested autostart for the future)

Btw: note IMO you can't start beagle as root or in a root-desktop session. 
Because of this: don't start beagle as root and never by default in KDE.

There is a release coming this week with Kopete support.  Also if you use
firefox/openoffice its relevant.

Btw. Don't start beagle within a (KDE) root session. 

And what if I never start kopete (I use sim and konversation), firefox (opera/
koqueror) or OO (KOffice)? Beagle startet by default? IMO beagle should only 
started in KDE by default if you use one of this programs the first time. In 
this case the user should be asked if he want to use beagle. 

x11-tools now added as a builddep and requirement for beagle, now for the code
to run desktop-launch ...

ugh, ignore the last comment, wrong bug.

I have fixed best.desktop in /opt/kde3/share/autostart, it no longer execs "best
--no-tray" just "best" as it should.

Assigning to JPR to determine if anymore will be done in beagle to not start it
as root.

We are starting it in KDE because Andreas asked us too, iirc.

If you start this by default in KDE: there should be a dialog if you stop/exit/
end best from the tray icon to ask the user if he would autostart best 
automatically with next login (e.g. in KPowersave). 

It is not acceptable if the user must remove the desktopfile on commandline as 
root from /opt/kde3/share/autostart or edit any other file if the user would 
start best anymore automatically.

*** Bug 104380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

also it will use XX more Megabytes of memory then the standard KDE session 
if you just start the beagle viewer... Not a good idea. 

We need that dialog from #10 - or not start it automatically.  The user needs to
be able to control it.  Btw. this applies to both GNOME and KDE.

I've added a '--autostarted' argument to beagled and best. The option of not
having beagle/best run at is available throught the search control-panel applet,
and as a dialog when closing an autostarted best instance.

We just need to add the --autostarted argument to the .desktop files KDE uses
for autostart, and to the gnome-session code.

Fix submitted to gnome-session and beagle packages for beta2.

This is bug is present in KDE on Beta2. Nothing changed! Now the following 
happens:

- if you stop/end best/beagle search you get no dialog as descriped in 
  #10 and #13
- best starts at every KDE start, also if you stop it
- best starts with a open window. It _should_ start minimized!
- best starts with a "--autostarted" in the search line
- if you not stop best before logout from KDE you get for each new login one 
  more best icon in the system tray

The current behavior is unacceptable. Best/beagle is full broken on KDE and 
_must_ be fixed or removed!

apparently the code for the new switch wasn't committed to cvs?

I'll remove the autostart foo for BETA3 if it isn't working.

This is packaged and tested. Just need permission to submit the new version,
which includes linking against gtk-sharp2.

Go ahead and submit.

This bug is fixed. Additionally, it was decided to not start beagle by default
on KDE.

*** Bug 116404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***