[Kde-pim] Review Request: Automatically start akonadi when necessary

[Robert Marmorstein]

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Review request for KDE PIM, Jason Kasper and Bertjan Broeksema.


Summary
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This patch uses Akonadi::Control::start to automatically launch akonadi under the following circumstances:

1.  A configuration dialog is launched that needs access to the Akonadi Collection List.

2.  The "isOpen" function is called on an akonadi-based conduit.

This second step means that whenever we sync to an Akonadi conduit, the akonadi server will be started -- or else we abort the sync with an error.

I have tested this with my LifeDrive and it works for me.  However, I think the "isOpen" solution is a little hacky.  Perhaps a better solution would be to start the server in the loadRecords function.  The problem with this is that "isOpen" will cause the sync to abort before loadRecords is even called.  One possible solution is to move the functionality of isOpen into the loadRecords function and get rid of isOpen calls everywhere.  This is a more invasive procedure, since it would require updating all of the existing akonadi-based conduits to eliminate the "isOpen" check, but I think it is probably the right direction to go, long-term.


Diffs
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  trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/akonadibase/akonadidataproxy.cc 999887 
  trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/akonadibase/akonadisetupwidget.cc 999887 

Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1090/diff


Testing
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Pulled up settings dialog.  Akonadi server was started and I was able to select a collection.  Turned off akonadi server using akonadictl.  The error overlay WAS displayed and the collection dialog was disabled.  Started akonadi server again, overlay disappeared and I was again able to configure a collections.  Then turned off akonadi server and started a sync.  The akonadi server was started and I synced succesfully.


Thanks,

Robert

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