Review Request 126961: Fix the infamous Plasma::Applet::Actions crash

[David Edmundson]

> On Feb. 2, 2016, 12:43 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > shell/shellcorona.cpp, line 629
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126961/diff/1/?file=442514#file442514line629>
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> >     m_screenConfiguration may still be a nullptr here, since it's set only after GetConfigOperation returns.
> >     
> >     That may well be the reason why the sync QScreen's count is used here, but this leads to problems down the road, as you note.
> >     
> >     We could make sure we have the number of screens returned here by making GetConfigOperation sync, so using its exec() and thus blocking in the setShell call.

ooh good catch.

I /think/ a simple if (null) return 0; is semantically correct.
As this should be a count of screens plasma knows about.


- David


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On Feb. 1, 2016, 11:08 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 1, 2016, 11:08 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> We were mixing KScreen and QScreen API badly.
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> Corona.cpp checks we are requesting a containment for a valid screen
> if (screen >= 0 && screen < numScreens()) {
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> This fails as numScreens() is Qt API based, whereas the signal we're
> adding the output for is ShellCorona::addOutput so we have an effective race condition.
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> BUG: 351777
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> Diffs
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>   shell/shellcorona.cpp 762e503bf59fe648fb0f5b76a36229aa43c563e5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126961/diff/
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> Testing
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> Started Plasma on dual screen.
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> Ideally we need to do more testing before backporting, as that entire codebase is a disgrace.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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