[RFE] support for passing arguments to applications in sailfish-qml

[M4rtinK]

sailfish-qml currently only accepts one possitional argument, which is the application name. Appending any additional arguments results in an error. This prevents application that are being launched by sailfish-qml from receiving custom CLI argument and options.

Suggestion:

• arguments passed after the application name should be added to argv, example:

  sailfish.qml harbour-foo --bar baz

  should result in Qt.application.arguments being equal to:

  sailfish-qml,harbour-modrana,-bar,baz

• if [bug] --help and --version options are interpretted as input #14 is fixed, my suggestion is to only handle --help and --version if no application name is provided, if application name is provided --help and --version should be added to agv and not handled so that the application can handle it itself
• if [RFE] add support for appending to QML import path to sailfish-qml #15 is fixed, the import path option flag & path should be handled & appened to argv, which is what qmlscene does & the flag should be something that does not collide with often used flag names, for example -I as with qmlscene or --qml_import_path_append

Usecase:
The modRana navigation system has various command line options and if sailfish-qml adds support for option passing, it will be possible for users and
other applications to make use of them. For example:

sailfish-qml harbour-modrana --local-search "pizza"

or

sailfish-qml harbour-modrana --focus-on-coordinates geo:50.083333,14.416667

[M4rtinK]

Any takers/progress on this ? I'm afraid I've not progressed much in my C++ knowledge since I have filled this issue 4 years ago. :)

In other news, yet another case where lack of argument passing is a problem for Sailfish OS applications:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=100253&page=2

In short:

• a developer (Taixzo) would like to tell a Sailfish OS QML mapping application (WhoMaps) application to launch and zoom on a point
• this is not possible as sailfish-qml can't pass command line arguments to the application

[martyone]

@M4rtinK are you sure this issue really (still) exists? I just briefly checked the code and it seems like doing exactly what you suggested.

[otsaloma]

Just tried it, Qt.application.arguments does work indeed. Maybe it was this commit: 4b1ab9b? Would have been nice to close this issue though.

[martyone]

@otsaloma thanks :)