Review Request 120342: Give Stage- and KoPA-specific tools own service types (fixes crash in Braindump and for me Flow)

Tue Sep 30 18:41:33 BST 2014

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(Updated Sept. 30, 2014, 5:41 p.m.)

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Review request for Calligra, Cyrille Berger Skott, Yue Liu, Boudewijn Rempt, and Thorsten Zachmann.

Repository: calligra

Description
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Currently blacklisting is done for the two Stage- and KoPA-specific tools calligrastagetoolanimation and kopabackgroundtool in all apps (not done for Braindump because there is no default braindumprc with an "ToolPluginsDisabled" entry).
Actually these two tools will even crash other apps because they expect the passed objects, like the canvas, to be of certain classes.
Als does the current blacklisting have a problem: if the entry "ToolPluginsDisabled" is written to the personal copy of the rc file, installing a new. Which happened to me, because I have a very old flowrc file in personal config dir with only "ToolPluginsDisabled=kopabackgroundtool", so the newer entry in the newer installed flowrc was no longer read, resulting in not blacklisting calligrastagetoolanimation for me in recent calligra versions. And trying that tool made me think Flow is buggy ;)

So given that those tools are not compatible with all apps, I propose to instead give them own service types:
"CalligraPageApp/Tool" and "CalligraStage/Tool".
So only programs which explicitely demand services of these types get them, and the rest no longer has to protect against them.

This also helps with potential 3rd-party KoPA-specific tool plugins, as they would not be catched by the existing blacklisting.

Only disadvantage: programs which want them have to explicitely demand them. But that seems okay to me.

Followed the example of Krita's KisFactory2 code how to do refcount-guarded loading of the plugins. Not sure that is perfect. But at least consistent :)

Diffs
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  karbon/data/karbonrc 33ac9b3 
  krita/animator/kritaanimationrc 60036d9 
  krita/data/kritarc 9ffcae4 
  krita/gemini/kritageminirc 354c741 
  krita/sketch/kritasketchrc f3efba6 
  libs/kopageapp/tools/CMakeLists.txt 3dea584 
  libs/kopageapp/tools/backgroundTool/kopabackgroundtool.desktop 1b8683a 
  libs/kopageapp/tools/kopa_tool.desktop PRE-CREATION 
  sheets/sheetsrc 9b622fb 
  stage/data/CMakeLists.txt 50e6efa 
  stage/data/kpr_tool.desktop PRE-CREATION 
  stage/part/KPrFactory.cpp 848b15c 
  stage/part/tools/animationtool/calligrastagetoolanimation.desktop ac2737e 
  words/part/author/authorrc 2537c68 
  words/part/wordsrc 4cd2801 
  flow/part/FlowFactory.cpp 7f14fb0 
  flow/part/flowrc 1d1c12f 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120342/diff/

Testing
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calligrastagetoolanimation and kopabackgroundtool now longer show up were they should not show up.

Thanks,

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau

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