Review Request 128473: Avoid recursive calls to QPlatformTheme::createPlatformSystemTrayIcon()

[Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark]

> On July 19, 2016, 4:02 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > KStatusNotifierItemPrivate::setLegacySystemTrayEnabled(bool enabled)
> > already has a recursion check added in b45544f3d4dd9cb1873b92a609f45a68f5f6e471  (in knotifications) - which basically checks if we're using the KDE platform theme (albeit in a slightly weird way)
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> > Not saying yours is "worse" but we don't want two fixes in two places.
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> > Could you check you have that patch? and why it doesn't work?
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> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
>     firstly, as you said, it checks in a weird way, which doesn't work, that's why I thought it made more sense to fix it in the platform theme itself which already knows that it is loaded and whether an SNI host is available.
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>     (fwiw, qApp->platformName() is not correct either, that's what I thought was the "proper" way to do it)

patching around that also leads to no legacy tray icon being created at all, which is obviously wrong.


- Martin Tobias Holmedahl


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On July 17, 2016, 8:14 p.m., Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
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> (Updated July 17, 2016, 8:14 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-integration
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> Description
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> If the status notifier item host is not available, KSNI tries to create a normal QSystemTrayIcon.
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> The plasma platform plugin uses KSNI when it is called to create a QPlatformSystemTrayIcon.
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> So if the status notifier item host for any reason was unavailable, this would recursively run forever (assuming a turing machine with infinite memory).
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> Diffs
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>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformsystemtrayicon.h 6825b4d 
>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformsystemtrayicon.cpp 0e82385 
>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformtheme.cpp 5f0407c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128473/diff/
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> Testing
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> Now it is possible to run applications that have tray icons with the plasma platform plugin even when the status notifier item host is down or unavailable.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark
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