[Bug 308068] Kmail drag and drop of messages to folders stops working if blender has been started

[Josep]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308068

--- Comment #5 from Josep <jgue at ieec.cat> ---
I think that since kmail and blender are executed by the same user, with the
same privileges, and depending on what the exact problem is, it may not be easy
preventing blender from disturbing kmail.

When I reported the bug, I was aware that it could be a blender bug, or even a
dbus bug, but, as I see it, it's kmail that is being affected, and the only
practical way to find out what is happening, I think, is tracing back the
problem from kmail misbehaviour (or from bug 308491, which seems to be almost
the same problem) to its source and, should be discovered that blender
overwrites some file, or some variable, or whatever when it shouldn't (or maybe
dbus doesn't protect some data when it should, or some other non KDE related
problem), then that can be reported as a bug to the program developers. 

But if I report the bug to blender (or dbus) developers, with just the little
information I have now, I doubt they will be able to find what's wrong, since
probably they would need first to get familiar with KDE code, and so, I suspect
kmail will continue to have this problem for a long time. On the other hand, if
I can tell blender (or dbus) developers that the problem is, say, that some
variable that should have been left alone is overwritten when blender starts,
then it is much more likely that the bug will be fixed quickly.

My point is that, even if the bug is not necessarily kmail's fault (and
remember that the bug could be too in some KDE library, for all we know), the
only practical way I can see to debug it is by finding how this misbehaviour is
triggered in kmail, and reporting those finds to the developers of the guilty
program, if it's not kmail.

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