[PATCH] BR57204 mailto: urls don't work when kontact is running.

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Fri Dec 19 11:04:20 GMT 2003


> > > > 2) Intercept calls to start kaddressbook somehow
> > >
> > > How about registering kontact as all the names it should answer for,
> > > on startup ("kmail", "kaddressbook", "korganizer" etc.) and having a
> > > proxy whose processRequest() loads the corresponding part and forwards
> > > it the request. From then on, either the proxy remains, or better, the
> > > proxy deregisters that name and lets the part register the real dcop
> > > object for that name.
> >
> > Sounds like a cleaner solution IMHO. But will this also solve the
> > problem with kdeinitExec() in KApplication::invokeMailer()?
> >
> > Any chance to get this stuff done in Osnabrück?
>
> Sure, if Waldo agrees that this is the best way... (I don't really have the
> big picture due to lack of understanding of some KUniqueApplication
> internals like newInstance, especially the recent changes in that area).

You would still get different behaviour depending on whether kontact is 
running or not, but other than that it sounds fine with me. What are you 
going to do when kaddressbook is already running?

Cheers,
Waldo




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