xmlgui problem with actions

[Vladimir Prus]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 10:33:24 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 18.06.08 08:52:30, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:31:15 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it seems that there's a problem with xmlgui and actions, specifically if
> > > two xmlgui clients provide the same action in their action collection.
> > > In our case thats Kate and QtDesigner. For some reason the QtDesigner
> > > action isn't removed from the menu and thus "blocks" the kate action,
> > > which means the shortcut for saving breaks (as its assigned to
> > > qtdesigner still).
> > 
> > Ugh.
> > 
> > > Anybody has an idea how to fix this, without removing the save action
> > > from qtdesigner plugin? Or should the save action be part of the
> > > platform and work on any document via public API?
> > 
> > Maybe platform level, we have the code for it already.  Sigh, these days 
> > xmlgui just feels like a big hack.
> 
> I've had a quick look last night and the problem really is that the
> designer actions do not get "unmerged" when designer document goes out
> of focus. This works just fine for katepart. I'm wondering wether the
> designer xmlgui client needs to do this itself or wether xmlgui should
> do this automatically??

Hmm, isn't Shell::MainWindowPrivate::changeActiveView supposed to do all
this -- for the case when a view goes out of focus? Ah, could the issue
be that desigher windows are not xmlguiclients, whereas designer plugin
itself is? So the actions are never unregistered.

- Volodya