[Kde-bindings] Using threads with QtRuby

[Uriel]

Hello.

I'm playing with QtRuby and now a bit stuck with threads. I know, that 
Ruby doesn't use native threads and do all the scheduling inside the VM.
It allows to use gui elements from non-gui threads which is not possible 
with regular threads and it's quite an interesting side-effect.
But, in fact, the threads themselves seems to be broken because of the 
main Qt's event loop (that's just an assumption anyway).
I haven't managed to find out the reason of such behaviour but threads 
can work at very low priority under some unknown conditions or not work 
at all what is much more common case.

At first I thought that it's beacuse binding makes call to the native 
method QCoreApplication::exec and waits for it to return before 
performing further scheduling.
But then I tried the GTK2 bindings and to my surprise it works just 
fine. Below is the sample code.

require 'Qt'

app = Qt::Application.new []

button = Qt::PushButton.new 'Qt button'
button.connect(SIGNAL 'clicked()'){ Thread.new{ loop do p "From Qt"; 
sleep 1; end } }

button.show

app.exec

This code produces no output unless call to thread's join method 
explicitly but that of course blocks the ui.

require 'gtk2'

button = Gtk::Button.new 'Gtk button'
button.signal_connect('clicked'){ Thread.new{ loop do p "From Gtk"; 
sleep 1; end } }

window = Gtk::Window.new
window.add button

button.show
window.show

Gtk.main

But this code works as expected in spite of the GTK's event loop.

So I'm wondering if anybody tried to work with threads in QtRuby and how 
successfully they were with this.

Thanks for your attention.