Review Request: Workaround for the hang (freeze) when opening VLC's file dialog under KDE...

[Dawit Alemayehu]

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(Updated Feb. 4, 2011, 12:11 a.m.)


Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.


Changes
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KStandardDirs::exists -> QFile::exists in sharedMimeInfoPkgConfigFile...


Summary
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The attached patch is a workaround to the much discussed issue with VLC hanging when opening a KDE file dialog. For the details about the causes of this bug, see http://lists.kde.org/?t=129572447500001&r=1&w=2 and the bug report linked above...


This addresses bug 260719.
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260719


Diffs (updated)
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  kdecore/services/kmimetyperepository.cpp 9f4c3ca 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100539/diff


Testing
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Thanks,

Dawit

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