Review Request: GlobalShortcuts Plugin for ActivityManager (kamd)

[makis marimpis]

> On April 4, 2012, 5:13 p.m., Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > service/plugins/globalshortcuts/globalshortcuts.cpp, line 41
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104428/diff/4/?file=55580#file55580line41>
> >
> >     Maybe the slowness has nothing to do with your patch. Last weekend I was debugging a crash in Bluedevil (when I turn off my bluetooth controller). I had to restart kded4 to do some tests and I noticed that while kded is loading its modules the whole desktop freezes.
> >     
> >     Usually the splash screen hides this problem, in my case there were no splash screen since I restarted only kded4.
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> makis marimpis wrote:
>     Hm, in every case i tried the plugin by restarting my kde session.
>     Without the plugin, all icons in the loading screen, load (doh) almost simultaneously.
>     When the plugin kicks in all icons load as before (fast) - but it stops (for a long time) when loading (what i assume it is) the plasma desktop (the icon before the enormous K)...
>     
>     Is there some Qt way to do some kind of profiling in KDE?

If the DBus slowness thing, is related to Plasma, should i wait until it is fixed somehow to the next point release?
Or, the "modifying SharedInfo" answer could also be accepted (as long as it is compatible with the master branch)?


- makis


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On April 4, 2012, 6:56 a.m., makis marimpis wrote:
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> (Updated April 4, 2012, 6:56 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Base Apps, KDE Runtime, Plasma, and Ivan Čukić.
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> Description
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> (follows discarded review: 104391)
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> The plugin adds global keyboard shortcuts for changing the activity.
> Defaults start from Qt::MetaModifier + Qt::Key_F1.
> 
> Initially, this functionality was implemented (without correct results) using KActitivities::Controller.
> Using DBus seems fine, just that... it forces kamd to start with 3-4 seconds delay - so it really needs modification/and i would like more guidance related to dbus :D.
> Other than that, feedback is needed. 
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> This addresses bugs 265069 and 273467.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265069
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273467
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> Diffs
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>   service/plugins/CMakeLists.txt 3e965c0a201a7eee2c9868fcf163cf55af636858 
>   service/plugins/globalshortcuts/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   service/plugins/globalshortcuts/activitymanager-plugin-globalshortcuts.desktop PRE-CREATION 
>   service/plugins/globalshortcuts/globalshortcuts.h PRE-CREATION 
>   service/plugins/globalshortcuts/globalshortcuts.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104428/diff/
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> Testing
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> Logged in.
> Used the default shortcuts to switch activities.
> It works!
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> Thanks,
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> makis marimpis
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