activities save and restore

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 19 December 2012, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 19:30:04 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > what happens is that at stop containments are correctly stored (in the
> > > above directory, one per file)
> > > then sometimes, it fails to restore the containment leading to an empty
> > > one, sometimes no containment at all.
> > 
> > if kamd reports the wrong activity information, it is possible that
> > libplasma does not load the activity information from the file -> empty
> > activity -> save out -> nothing in the file?
> 
> i got it building on a virtualbox instance in mer...
> and it gets broken only when i do a release build.
> that's why we are not seeing this, we are always running a debug build
> 
> that means the problem is in some code conditionally built only on debug
> builds
> (i remember once a bug in kactivitymanager was an operation done inside a
> kDebug() << statement, it may be that again)

and indeed that was it (a QMetaObject::invokeMethod in Start.cpp hidden behind 
a kDebug())
fixed it in KDE/4.10 and master, so the desktop should be fine as well

Cheers,
Marco Martin