KDEinit problem

[Anders Lund]

Hi,

Since KDE 3.5 Kate is no longer a KUniqueApplication, instead we support named 
sessions, and also allows to open files in existing instances.

The latter is implemented by using DCOP to find the application instance to 
use and ask it to open the URL. This is done in the main() function, and it 
seems to cause a problem with kdeinit, which experiences an error. For 
example when opening files from konqueror in this way (with --use in the kate 
command line) one gets 2 (!) errors with the text 

    "KDEInit could not launch 'kate'."

I have tried calling KStartupInfo::setWindowStartupId( winId, startupId ); 
with the result of KStartupInfo::currentStartupIdEnv() and the window ID 
retrived via DCOP and also calling KStartupInfo::appStarted( startupId ), to 
no avail. Looking at the kinit code (in klauncher) it seems like this error 
is produced when the process exits at a time that kinit feels is premature.

The question is:

  Is there a way to let kinit know that the request is sufficiently processed?

TIA,
-anders
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