[Kde-imaging] releasing kipi & co.

Angelo Naselli anaselli at linux.it
Sat Apr 28 19:09:52 CEST 2007


Alle sabato 28 aprile 2007, Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
> 2007/4/28, Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it>:
> >
> > Alle sabato 28 aprile 2007, Aurélien Gâteau ha scritto:
> > > On Saturday 28 April 2007 00:21:19 Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > >
> > > > I havn't seen any critical bugs except next one about HTML export:
> > > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134300
> > > > Please Aurelien can you tell me something about that?
> > >
> > > It really is strange. The HTML export plugin is not multithreaded, so it
> > can't
> > > be a multithread problem. The backtrace indicates it crashes in a
> > kdDebug()
> > > call from KIO::Scheduler, so I believe it's a kdelibs problem.
> > Thanks Aurelien.
> >
> > Gilles since the reporter said he've chosen Album/export.... could it be
> > related to
> > digikam instead?
> >
> > Angelo
> 
> 
> yes, you can see in the backtrace than the plugin have been started from
> digiKam, but the crash is inside the plugin not digiKam.
> 
> I recommend two points :
> 
> - 1/ try to reproduce the crash under valgrind to have more debug
> informations.
> - 2/ try to use qDebug() instead kDdebug().
> 
> Nota : in digiKam 0.9.x we using a multithreaded wrapper for KDdebug()
> because this one do not support multithreading. Personnaly i think than all
> non graphics KDE API must be re-entrant. KDE API sound like very fragile
> ! We have a good experence MArcel & me about KDE API and multithreading
> uncompatibility.
> 
> This problem about KDE API is a shame. and i'm affraid about KDE4. I'm sure
> than we will discover a lots problems... QT API is more proffesional
> development framework... Of course there are good ideas in KDE4 API, but I
> recommend to take a care about to use it everywhere...

Gilles I see, but as Aurelien said it's not multithreaded, so why should
be crash for that, maybe only because it has been used under a multi thread
application. Am I wrong?

Angelo
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