Review Request 115251: Add better runtime detection for X11 usage in KStartupInfo

[Alex Merry]

> On Jan. 31, 2014, 8:45 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > src/kstartupinfo.cpp, lines 458-480
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115251/diff/2/?file=240679#file240679line458>
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> >     Surely we shouldn't be using KXMessages if we don't have X11?
> >     
> >     (Also applies to the next bunch of methods)
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I decided to not add the check to this method as it takes a Display* as argument. Thus it's the responsibility of the caller to check whether it's on X11. If the caller uses Display* unconditionally it's crashing in the application code before going into this code.

Fair enough.


- Alex


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On Jan. 27, 2014, 7:31 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 27, 2014, 7:31 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kwindowsystem
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> Description
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> Add better runtime detection for X11 usage in KStartupInfo
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> Compile time checks for X11 is no longer sufficient. This adds a
> runtime check to all the code paths which look dangerous if executed
> on a non-X11 platform.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kstartupinfo.cpp 5dbf47cb666fbed17c943491efe93e17f27d581e 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115251/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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