Threading in Plasma applets

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Tue Feb 19 19:06:44 CET 2008


On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Richard Dale wrote:
> were having problems too, which makes me think it might be some sort
> of Ruby problem, rather than a QtRuby specific problem. Is that
> possible?

could be.. and yes, the kross based ScripEngines were dieing badly in 
threading related deaths while the same engines when running python scripts 
work fine.

> What threads are running in the Plasma process? 

currently only two types: one to render the background image (one per 
DefaultDesktop containment going, and only when the background needs 
re-rendering) and the main GUI thread for everything else (inc DataEngines, 
plasmoids, etc)

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