From kde-commits  Sun Jun 13 19:35:27 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:35:27 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kdelibs/kdecore
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Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, CVS by ssk wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > kdelibs/kdecore kglobal.cpp,1.8,1.9
> > > Author: ssk
> > > CVSROOT: /home/kde
> > > Sat Jun  5 11:28:59 MET DST 1999
> > > Update of /home/kde/kdelibs/kdecore
> > > In directory zeus:/tmp/cvs-serv3878
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >     kglobal.cpp
> > > Log Message:
> > > Removed assert in kApp... less safe, more "flexible".
> >
> > Yup, and now you've just moved the segfault from the abort trap to the
> > time it tries to access KApp.
> 
> Which particular segfault would you be talking about? I removed this
> because you mentioned tht kdebug depends on it (and I gathered kdebug
> works properly even if kapp == 0).
> 
> I have looked at the source of your problem and it seems that the kioslave
> never creates a kapp object, one of the preconditions for using KGlobal.
> In this particular case, kapp is used to get the appname when creating the
> KStandardDirs object. I don't know how to get around that, Stephan knows
> more about this.
> 
I already did. YOu don't need KApplication for KGlobal, that's the main
idea behind KGlobal ;)

But we needed KApplication to get the appName for KStandardDirs. But
this
I have changed.

Greetings, Stephan

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