Help kioslave from KF 5.51.0 always crashes

[Harald Sitter]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 9:33 PM David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On samedi 13 octobre 2018 20:00:08 CEST Heiko Becker wrote:
> > On Samstag, 13. Oktober 2018 19:36:39 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > >> with kio-5.51.0 the help kioslave always crashes here, doesn't
> > >> matter if I
> > >> use it via F1, the handbook entry in the menu or in khelpcenter directly
> > >> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399709)
> > >>
> > >> If I revert  ...
> > >
> > > Backtrace?
> >
> > Already posted at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399709, but here it
> > goes again: [...]

Oh my. Sorry about that.

> I guess all kioslaves need a QCoreApplication instance nowadays...
> Meanwhile this KCrash fix should fix the crash so we don't have to port all
> kioslaves right away: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16183

I do wonder if we can init qApp via the slavebase for all slaves?
Although, now that I wrote that I imagine that's not entirely save
since existing slaves may initialize the slavebase before they create
a qApp.

HS