[PATCH] KIO::SlaveBase and the event loop

[Thiago Macieira]

Sebastian Trüg wrote:
>I create a local event loop in the listDir method and execute it after
>starting my thread that does all the dbus communication. DBus signals
> come in via a queued connection and are handled in the main thread
> (they create listEntry calls). Once the initial listing is done
> (search) I disconnect the dbus signals and reconnect them directly.
> That is because once my local event loop is done I still need to get
> the dbus signals to update my internal state and emit KDirNotify
> signals.
>It works but with a rather bis delay for the update signals that are to
> be delivered directly. I don't really understand that since my thread
> runs its own event loop.
>
>I hope this was not too confusing. ;)

If you're going to use a separate thread for handling a D-Bus connection, 
do not use QDBusConnection::sessionBus() nor 
QDBusConnection::systemBus(). You must connect on your own.

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