[PATCH] KIO::SlaveBase and the event loop

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 17:44:58 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

aha. that could be the problem since I was wrong: the signals after the 
re-connect don't get delivered at all.

I will try with my own connection. Damn, that means to change the query 
client....