Review Request 123523: KPropertiesDialog::KPropertiesDialog(urls) and KPropertiesDialog::showDialog(urls)

[Emmanuel Pescosta]

> On April 27, 2015, 5:10 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.cpp, line 279
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123523/diff/1/?file=363715#file363715line279>
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> >     Ouch! A nested event loop! Nasty. Opens the door to unexpected reentrancy....
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> >     Not to mention blocking the GUI for a very long time if this is done with many urls over a very slow protocol.
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> >     Better write a multi-stat job if we don't have one, and let the application use that, and open the properties dialog from a slot.
> >     
> >     Alternatively, the properties dialog could itself delay showing itself until it has stat'ed the urls (using a slot, not a blocking nested event loop).

Copied the code from KPropertiesDialog(url) incl. the warning from showDialog(url), but I agree that this
should be fixed. (also for KPropertiesDialog(url))

> Better write a multi-stat job if we don't have one

Ok I'll have a look at it :)


- Emmanuel


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On April 27, 2015, 1:49 p.m., Emmanuel Pescosta wrote:
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> (Updated April 27, 2015, 1:49 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> Added KPropertiesDialog::KPropertiesDialog(urls) and KPropertiesDialog::showDialog(urls) as convenience methods for non-file-manager applications, where you have a list of QUrls rather than a KFileItemList.
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> Diffs
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>   src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.h 8d98b35 
>   src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.cpp 37fa88f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123523/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Emmanuel Pescosta
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