Review Request 124371: Fix potential endless recursion in PlatformStatus::findLookAndFeelPackage()

[Daniel Vrátil]

> On July 16, 2015, 2:49 p.m., Bhushan Shah wrote:
> > +1, though I remember sebas also tried to fix some recursive loop here sometime ago..
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> > tree b2e50f720e779924ffbc9211c935cb433894337a                                                                                                                                                     
> > parent 2d7dfd214789ec140306eb18971689909692deae                                                                                                                                                   
> > author Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> Thu Jan 29 13:35:31 2015 +0100                                                                                                                            
> > committer Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> Thu Jan 29 13:35:31 2015 +0100                                                                                                                         
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> > Fix fallback from invalid L&F packages                                                                                                                                                            
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> > The mechanism should have deleted the old key from the config if it was                                                                                                                           
> > invalid and then try again in order to get the default. As we were                                                                                                                                
> > deleting the wrong key (actually the value of the shell package key),                                                                                                                             
> > this was turning into a recursive loop. Deleting the correct key                                                                                                                                  
> > obviously fixes this.                                                                                                                                                                             
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> > Thanks Bille for reporting!                                                                                                                                                                       
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> > Reviewed-by: Marco Martin                                                                                                                                                                         
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> > BUG:343510

That's a fix in the right direction, but the key is still wrong :-)


- Daniel


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On July 16, 2015, 1:38 p.m., Daniel Vrátil wrote:
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> (Updated July 16, 2015, 1:38 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Marco Martin.
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> The `LookAndFeel` entry does not exist in `kdeglobals` (it's called `LookAndFeelPackage`), so when the configured LnF package is removed or renamed, the code will go to endless loop because it never clears the configuration ine `kdeglobals` correctly.
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> We discovered this in Fedora, because we ship our own ugly LnF package, and we renamed it at some point, which caused KDED to go nuts.
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> Diffs
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>   src/platformstatus/platformstatus.cpp e03c16d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124371/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel Vrátil
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