KMaiL: Can't setup D-Bus service. Probably already running.

[Ralf Habacker]

Shane King schrieb:
> Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>   
>> Hello
>> I am getting
>>
>> <unknown program name>(3852)/: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup D-Bus service. 
>> Probably already running.
>>
>> in KUniqueApplication::start() when starting KMail on Windows another time.
>>
>> QDBusConnectionInterface::registerService("org.kde.kmail") returns 
>> DBUS_REQUEST_NAME_REPLY_EXISTS.
>>
>> I have no other kmail process started so I am wondering how to avoid such 
>> cases in general for KUniqueApps.
>>
>>     
>
> I've got a local fix in Amarok's App destructor:
>
>
> #ifdef Q_WS_WIN
>      // work around for KUniqueApplication being not completely 
> implemented on windows
>      QDBusConnectionInterface* dbusService;
>      if (QDBusConnection::sessionBus().isConnected() && (dbusService = 
> QDBusConnection::sessionBus().interface()))
>          dbusService->unregisterService("org.kde.amarok");
> #endif
>
> We really need a fix in kdelibs, but this is more a work-around than a 
> real fix I think so I'm not sure if it's the best way of going about it.
>   
Should this not be in KUniqueApplication destructor ?  But what about 
application crashes or other abnormal terminations, are they routed also 
over this destructor ?

Ralf