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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">This review has been submitted with commit 07cddfe302233c3555258f077429e55ce622e262 by Jekyll Wu to branch master.</pre>
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<p>On January 25th, 2012, 9:18 a.m., Jekyll Wu wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for Konsole.</div>
<div>By Jekyll Wu.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Jan. 25, 2012, 9:18 a.m.</i></p>
<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The existing problem is Konsole tries to create dbus object /Konsole for each Konsole window, and clearly only the all attempt except the first fail. So all dbus methods on /Konsole work in the context the first window.
I believe this is a mistake or omission in design/coding. Since Konsole support multiple windows, the logical choice is we should created one dbus object for each Konsole window respectively.
The patch is mininal for prototyping. It creates dbus object /Windows/N for each Konsole window in the same way as /Session/N for each session. Now users can use "qdbus org.kde.konsole /Windows/N ..." to perform action in the context specified Konsole window. For convenience, a environment variable $KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW is added for recording the dbus object of current Konsole window, just like $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION for the dbus object of current sesstion/tab.
The main problem of the patch is it 'breaks' compatibility. The old /Konsole dbus object is no longer available. In general, I think compatibility makes sense only when the old interfaces work. Nevertheless, it's a good idea to deal with /Konsole in a more careful and user-friendly way. I just don't know how.
Some possible further improvement:
a). After applying this patch, dbus object /Windows/N corredsponds to one ViewManager instance. Although there is nothing wrong here since the relationship between MainWindow and ViewManager is one-to-one, maybe it is more natural to move those dbus code into MainWindow.
b). In the future, we can use the /Konsole dbus object to represent the whole Konsole process. It can be used to query some global information about the konsole process, for example defaultProfile() for the default profile,
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276912">276912</a>,
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281513">281513</a>,
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292309">292309</a>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>src/Application.cpp <span style="color: grey">(646cd4b)</span></li>
<li>src/Session.h <span style="color: grey">(e58476b)</span></li>
<li>src/Session.cpp <span style="color: grey">(a172b8c)</span></li>
<li>src/ViewManager.h <span style="color: grey">(9b85358)</span></li>
<li>src/ViewManager.cpp <span style="color: grey">(a9fb193)</span></li>
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<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103790/diff/" style="margin-left: 3em;">View Diff</a></p>
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