[kde-freebsd] Annoying network folder notifications

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Alberto Villa <avilla at freebsd.org> writes:

> On Tuesday 14 February 2012 15:35:54 Bengt Ahlgren wrote:
>> I just upgraded to KDE 4.7.4 from 4.5.x (don't remember exactly) running
>> on a 8.2-STABLE from Feb 6.  As a result, I started to get a lot of
>> annoying notifications from the device notifier about network folders on
>> the local network.  There are also a lot of TCP connections being setup,
>> or tried, currently for example I have *39* of these:
>
> Let's take this thread back on top!
>
> The problems you all have are most probably caused by the Solid UPnP 
> backend.
>
>> I have not found any KDE system setting to control this behaviour.  I am
>> usually uninterested of network folders, and would rather explicitly
>> browse the network when (if) needed.
>
> Yesterday I committed a patch which disables the backend, as it proved to be 
> the cause of many horrible crashes on my 4.8.2 test installation. You can 
> still enable it via SOLID_UPNP environment variable. Please, check 
> KDE/x11/kdelibs4/pkg-message in area51.

Great to hear!  I also have some seemingly random crashes with 4.7.4
(kwin for instance).  Does this patch apply to 4.7.4 as well?

(I unfortunately don't have the time at the moment to test 4.8.2.)

Bengt