[PATCH] Allow forced new processes for KUniqueApplication

[Thiago Macieira]

Robert Knight wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Konsole is a KUniqueApplication and uses only one process for all
>instances.  This causes a problem where shells in a newly started
>Konsole do not inherit their environment from the parent terminal and
>debug output from the new instance does not appear in the parent
>terminal.
>
>What I would like to do is to force the creation of a new process when
>Konsole is started from the terminal but share a single process for
>instances created from a GUI (the start menu, ALT-F2 dialog etc.)
>
>Attached is a patch for KUniqueApplication which overloads
>KUniqueApplication::start() to take a set of flags to control how how
>the new instance is created, including forcing the creation of a new
>process if necessary.

Please call it DontFork, since it would match the --nofork command-line 
option.

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