RFC - Detecting broken KDE libs

[Dawit A.]

Hi,

While working on unrelated bug I run into an interesting issue which I think 
is important enough to warrant at least some discussion.  The issue was I got 
prompted to take action on images that should be displayed inline on web 
pages. 

The problem turned out to be a broken image viewer part had the highest 
priority to handle such requests. Konqueror simply attempted to use it and on 
failure prompted the user for action. This happened despite the fact that 
there were other working parts with lower priority associated to handle the 
same request. The question then is shouldn't konqueror try all the available 
handlers first before prompting the user for action ? Also, is it possible to 
write a small app like the one attached to help determine all broken KDE libs 
in a given installation ? 

After playing around a while with "ldd" and the small program attached it 
seems to me that a library cannot be simply labled broken because it has 
"undefined symbols". For example, all the KDED modules and the kwin styles 
are seem to fail with undefined symbols using both ldd and my simple program 
that uses KLibLoader. Any suggestions ?

-- 
Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"
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