How a non-KDE application access Kwallet

[Thiago Macieira]

Suryanarayanan Rajaram wrote:
>Thanks for the answer.
>I am pasting here the stack trace for the crash when KApplication is not
>used.
>Also please find the snippet of my code sequence below..
>So is there no way for me to access kwallet secrets without linking to
>Qt..?

There's no way to use the KWallet classes in KDE without creating a 
KApplication or a KInstance because it will crash with the backtrace 
below:

>#0  0x40a4b062 in KInstance::dirs () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4

I am pretty sure this frame has this == 0x0.

>#1  0x40a4b0f2 in KGlobal::dirs () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
>#2  0x40a75fc4 in KConfigBackEnd::changeFileName () from
>/opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
>#3  0x40a76287 in KConfigBackEnd::KConfigBackEnd () from
>/opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
>#4  0x40a77f8b in KConfig::KConfig () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
>
>#5  0x4003cc54 in KWallet::Wallet::NetworkWallet () from
>/opt/kde3/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1
>#6  0x0804a099 in DCOPDemoWidget::setKWalletSecret (this=0x8050968) at
>mytest.cpp:51
>#7  0x0804a2a5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffe894) at mytest.cpp:169
>(gdb) quit

You need at least a KInstance object in order to use the wallet and config 
classes. A KApplication is not necessary, but is sufficient.

>DCOP should still work without a KApplication, but it definitely
>requires linking to Qt.

DCOP is a protocol. You can use it without Qt. What you can't use without 
Qt is the DCOPObject class and libdcop library that comes with KDE.

I think there are other bindings to DCOP available, but I am not sure the 
state they are in.

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