Review Request 125545: Don't start an eventLoop from QML in menu entry editing

[Eike Hein]

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Right-click an application, re testing question.

- Eike Hein


On Oct. 7, 2015, 1 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 7, 2015, 1 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> From the docs:
> This is dangerous, because when an event loop is entered in a signal
> handler or binding, the QML engine continues to run other bindings,
> animations, transitions, etc. Those bindings can then cause side effects
> which, for example, destroy the hierarchy containing your event loop.
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> There was a queuedConnection approach that I guess tries to supress the problem, but it clearly didn't work.
> In any case, it's better not to freeze the shell
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> BUG: 347997
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> Diffs
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>   applets/kicker/plugin/appentry.cpp 45644d4f8b8b4e83debb90e9acaf52db14ead7ec 
>   applets/kicker/plugin/menuentryeditor.cpp ce202c7ae6540bc7f4e3da53211d224dd9eedce7 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125545/diff/
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> Testing
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> Literally none. I can't work out how to trigger the "Edit Application" option. Help/testing would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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