synaptiks – KDE touchpad management

[Sebastian Wiesner]

On Thursday 04 March 2010 01:09:35 Alex Merry wrote
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 17:53:14 Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
> > Well, synaptiks uses C++ exceptions.  I don't know, if that is an issue …
> > kdelibs doesn't use exceptions, but on the other hand I didn't find any
> > policy on KDE techbase, that advises against using exceptions.
> 
> As David said, exceptions aren't inherently a problem.  The policy (is it
> written down anywhere?) is that we don't use exceptions in the platform
> libraries.
> 
> You should also bear in mind that exceptions may be disabled in the Qt
> build, and so should not be allowed to pass into Qt code 

In synaptiks, exceptions are caught in slots and turned into notifications or 
D-Bus errors (depending on how the slot was called), Qt doesn't see any 
exceptions.

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