Dolphin regressions in KDE 4.9.4

[Mark]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Frank Reininghaus
<frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear packagers,
>
> unfortunately, some of the bug fixes in KDE 4.9.4 caused regressions.
> They are fixed in the 4.9 branch and will be in KDE 4.9.5, but I'll
> tell you about them nevertheless, so you can decide if you think it's
> worth the effort to update your packages. I've attached patches for
> kdelibs and kde-baseapps 4.9.4 for convenience.
>
> I'm very sorry for the trouble. Things like these should really not
> happen. At least the two Dolphin issues should be easily unit-testable
> - I'll make sure that these tests are in place before any further
> non-trivial changes in these areas (which have already been subject to
> regressions earlier) are made.
>
>
> 1. Random crashes when pasting or dropping items:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311246
>
> Caused by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/b25059e803e7eed54f0593605a4066882d63bce2
>
> Fixed by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/6d0f9ada0198f6e73a8fca1e709676d0ac83a67b
>
> I did paste and drag&drop a lot in the 4.9 branch before the release,
> but I did not see the crash on my development machine, and neither did
> the other involved people.
>
>
> 2. Failure to restore the keyboard focus after renaming items:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311206
>
> Caused by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/951cb9c35d7a9ef814b3de5b359915968da9b881
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/3143acc084d54d43df469b54762bfa10a7050a9f
>
> Fixed by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/620f9670af432c8c7a79fd47789da1788d7d6b17
>
> which reverts the two earlier commits and solves it in a better way.
>
>
> 3. Maybe the worst one: a change in kdelibs that makes Dolphin open
> zip-based files (like OpenDocument) as zip archives and shows the
> archive contents in the view, rather than opening the file with the
> default application (only if "Open archives as folder" is enabled):
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311214
>
> Caused by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/repository/revisions/4f296cfbced2c4ad54beec8f500ed2d3fc04ee05
>
> Fixed by
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/repository/revisions/73283f1332e90fbb6fe0caa39a038cb16b83a54c
>
> (just reverts the bad commit).
>
>
> Sorry again for the trouble and thanks for all the awesome work you do
> to bring our software to the users!
>
> Best regards,
> Frank

That's quite some regressions in just point releases..

Either way, could you thoroughly test the new listDir batching in
dolphin? I tested it (visually in dolphin only) and i couldn't find
any issue at all. I also tested it in a custom application and there
it's all going smooth as well. But i'd hate to see the listDir change
cause a regression so a extra set of eyes would be nice to make
absolutely sure that there is no regression there.

Note: dolphin still waits till _all_ results are in.. Or in other
terms, it doesn't make use of batching to quickly show some results
while it's still fetching new results.