PATCH: kwallet lockup (#65978/#71048)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 12 of January 2004 17:02, George Staikos wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 10:39, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > > but this is apparently
> > > > causing Danimo's Kontact problem, and is probably not that good in
> > > > general
> > > > (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107366739332428&w=2). On
> > > > the other hand, blocking DCOP call will cause #71048.
> > >
> > > The solution is to use asynchronous DCOP calls... (In fact kwallet
> > > seems to have an option to use its home-brew version of those already)
> > > you call and return to the main-event loop. When the answer comes back
> > > you get a signal back. So what needs to happen is that kwallet.cc
> > > reverts to 1.42 and that khtml gets changed so that it opens the wallet
> > > asynchronously.
> >
> >  That's not going to be only khtml, that's going to be everything using
> > kwallet. I'm not sure if people would like to always have to open wallets
> > asynchronously.
>
>   Exactly, reverting callExt for all applications will probably break many
> of them.

 What do you expect to break, besides the popup lockup? I was only suggesting 
that people might not like API-wise being forced to open the wallet 
asynchronously, I don't see any potential problem with making the call not to 
use event loop and only somehow handle the popup problem.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
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