[KDE/Mac] kbuildsycoca5/kded5 weirdness on OSX

[Marko Käning]

Hi Jeremy,

I - right away - coming back to your offer to look into the daemon/services stuff. :)

I had a chat with Ben a few days ago, since my kbuildsycoca5 suddenly needs a _long_
time to run on the OSX/CI system.

Test-runs I do these days using my run.sh script [1], which ensures that (hopefully all)
necessary files are found by any project installed and running on my OSX/CI system. But
I suspect this assumption is not yet fully true, as there are still some problems with
certain files (themes, icon, etc.).
If the respective *.env file doesn’t exist from a previous run, this script makes
sure it gets created.



E.g. for kanagram I see this:
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$ ./run.sh kde/kdeedu kanagram
Creating environment as 'kanagram.env' ...
Environment variables set by kanagram:
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
export KDEDIRS
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export XDG_DATA_DIRS
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
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Calling kbuildsycoca5 every time is with ~ 1 minute far too slow atm (this wasn't the case before, I believe!)
---
Could not find drkonqi at /opt/kde/install/darwin/mavericks/clang/kf5-qt5/frameworks/kcrash/inst/lib/libexec/drkonqi
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/var/folders/xd/_025xt7j6dggsjd0_6tczq180000gn/T/runtime-marko'
kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/Users/marko/Library/Caches/ksycoca5"
Recreating ksycoca file ("/Users/marko/Library/Caches/ksycoca5", version 300)
Menu "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
Saving
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ("services", "servicetypes", "xdgdata-mime", "apps")

real	1m10.382s
user	0m8.920s
sys	0m19.882s
---
Could not find drkonqi at /opt/kde/install/darwin/mavericks/clang/kf5-qt5/frameworks/kcrash/inst/lib/libexec/drkonqi
Checking path  "/opt/kde/install/darwin/mavericks/clang/kf5-qt5/kde/kdeedu/kdeedu-data/inst/share/apps/kvtml"  for kvtml files
 HunspellClient::HunspellClient
No language dictionaries for the language: "en"
org.kde.kanagram: Created game and engine helper
org.kde.kanagram: Set all context properties
org.kde.kanagram: Setup declarative engine
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: too many profiles
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
org.kde.kanagram: Set qml file location
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I inserted a “time” before kbuildsycoca5 above and measure more than a _minute_ usually for
the time needed to run it once. Ben verified for me that this is very unusual and the big
question is where the program spends its time.

As I have pointed out in [2] also kded5 spends a hell of a time (20 min) in walking OSX'
file system below /Applications. It needs so much time in there since it searches through
every application package installed in there. This takes very much time for the developer
tools in Xcode.app…
I suggested to make kded5 more intelligent and simply SKIP entering all the app packages 
in these searches, but there was no response to that.
Was that suggestion nonsensical?

I suspect that kbuildsycoca5 is hit by just the same issue here!!! :-/

	Do you see something similar on your end?

Well, and since I don’t want to run kded5 for 20 mins just to be able to test-run some
KF5 application I have to live with that some apps call kbuildsycoca5 when I call for
certain actions which involve access to the file system or whatever...

Please read [2], as this is a nice example of the trouble found on OSX wrt KF5.

Greets,
Marko



[1] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fwebsites%2Fbuild-kde-org%2Fkaning%2Fmp-osx-ci.git&a=blob&h=fe9bc2d0502492032278c66bbd60773e7a548d5b&hb=e7822a0f8cf12a50f678d957abcba84b65216df0&f=run.sh

[2] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2015-January/003150.html