LanguagePlugins and AlwaysOn

[Milian Wolff]

On Thursday 17 June 2010 20:00:28 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 17.06.10 19:10:47, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > Heyho,
> > 
> > while working on the multilang support I found out that the "AlwaysOn"
> > attribute doesn#t actually mean AlwaysOn but more "neverUnload". But
> > imagine this:
> > 
> > open index.html
> > => langController->languagesForUrl()
> > (foreground)
> > => loads XML Language Support
> > => parsejob
> > => run (background)
> > <style type="text/css">
> > => langController->languagesForMimeType("text/css")
> > => nothing found since loading plugins from the background is explicitly
> > forbidden
> > 
> > Now what to do? Can't we simply load all language plugins _always_? I.e.
> > also at start?
> 
> Btw, who disallows loading plugins from background threads? I can't see
> anything in our own codebase, so is this something that kdelibs or Qt
> restrict?

It's the LanguageController, see languagesForUrl method. David introduced that 
check to prevent crashes back then.


-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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