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

[Dawit Alemayehu]

> On Feb. 4, 2011, 8:02 a.m., Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Please also add the { } around single line blocks (as per kdelibs coding style).

Lets us forget about such nitpicks, okay... If such unnecessary coding styles were to be enforced, there would be so many lines of code that would need fixing in this very same file.


> On Feb. 4, 2011, 8:02 a.m., Pino Toscano wrote:
> > kdecore/services/kmimetyperepository.cpp, lines 690-692
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100539/diff/6/?file=8341#file8341line690>
> >
> >         QStringList paths;
> >         const QByteArray pkgConfigPath = qgetenv("PKG_CONFIG_PATH");
> >         if (!pkgConfigPath.isEmpty())
> >             paths << QFile::decodeName(pkgConfigPath).split(QLatin1Char(':'), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
> >     
> >         paths << QLatin1String("/usr/share/pkgconfig");
> >

Now that is a good idea. Let us avoid unnecessary QString conversions.


- Dawit


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On Feb. 4, 2011, 1:29 a.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 4, 2011, 1:29 a.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> 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...
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> This addresses bug 260719.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260719
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> Diffs
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>   kdecore/services/kmimetyperepository.cpp 9f4c3ca 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100539/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Dawit
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