kded won't start anymore

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 27 June 2008 08:42:51 David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:17:36PM +0200, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 June 2008 17:44:20 David Faure wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > kded should automatically restart
> > > >
> > > > Yes I think so too.
> > >
> > > One could create a plasmoid that checks every x seconds whether kded is
> > > still running and displays a button to restart, if not. This way it
> > > would use 0 space if kded is active and help the users that do not know
> > > what's wrong if cookies, global shortcuts etc. do not work anymore.
> > >
> > > Sven
> >
> > Or kded could just restart on its own like plasma does.
>
> Done now. This functionality is now available to all unique applications,
> using KCrash::setFlags(KCrash::AutoRestart) (after the kapplication
> exists). It works like the plasma handler (which I'll port to that shared
> code on monday), i.e. after a crash the autorestart is only re-enabled
> after 10 seconds. So it's no longer "one crash and you're doomed", it's now
> "two crashes within 10 seconds and you're doomed", and I think you'd have
> to be a pretty fast clicker to trigger the crashing action twice in 10s.
>

Thanks!

> > No point in exposing that to the user at all.
>
> I disagree, and this is why you still get drkonqi from the first kded
> crash: it's useful for bug reports, and to know that something's wrong with
> your kde... this way if you do trigger "two crashes in 10s" and cookies and
> global shortcuts stop working, you can easily conclude that it might be
> related to that drkonqi crash you got. But of course after that you don't
> get a drkonqi for each crash, it would just be annoying for no purpose.
> You're supposed to report the bug on the first crash :) On that note, the
> favicon crash is fixed too.

Agreed. I was referring to the idea that there should be a plasmoid to expose 
it to the user. Dr. Konqi is indeed a good solution. Thanks for implementing 
it.
--
Matt