Review request: KDE 4.11 showstopper: KMix lockup for 20 seconds, and a concept for fixing it (reviewboard)

[Christian Esken]

Am 11.07.2013 00:35, schrieb Christian Esken:
> Hello,
>
> in KDE4.10 KMix officially got MPRIS2 support. All looked fine in the 
> beginning, but soon there were complaints about lockups with 
> Clementine or other Media players, especially during logging in. 
> Several solutions failed. So I tried to draft a new solution - see the 
> attachment in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317926 . If 
> somebody could comment on that it would be highly appreciated.
>
> Impact: I myself am not directly affected. But for those who are 
> affected the problem is highly annoying - nobody wants to have a login 
> delay of 20 seconds and then also a only half working Mixer or Media 
> player. This is very close to being a showstopper: extremely annoying, 
> and that can be the first impression on KDE you get.

>
> Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317926

I think I now have a pretty stable solution. Alas - it is in trunk, 
because I accidentally missed the "branching" mail. I put up a review 
request on https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111646/, but as one could 
expect it is quite massive, even with whitespace changes hidden.

I am convinced trunk is dramatically better than what I left in KDE 
4.11, so I would really like to "copy" KMix trunk to KDE 4.11. If some 
strongly opposes (too big, too late, too whatever),  I could postpone 
that to KDE4.11.1 but then again I would need to do the copy. If it is 
OK, I would also require help with the actual git commands (checkout, 
merge, rebase, ...). I really don't want to kill the repo directly 
before a release. :)

  Christian