From kde-core-devel  Sun Dec 21 16:03:19 2003
From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:03:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Problem with applications which have a system tray applet and
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107208785431497
MIME-Version: 1
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--Boundary-02=_NRc5/HI+449HJ4t"


--Boundary-02=_NRc5/HI+449HJ4t
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:50, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2003 23:58, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > > Why not simply call kapp->ref() from the systemtray (your derived
> > > class for now, the base one in kde-4 maybe), and deref in the
> > > dtor?
> > >
> > > Then the user has to close the systray thingie by whichever way,
> > > before the process exits.
> >
> > Hah! I'm glad I'm not the only one that makes this mistake. That's
> > what I tried first after I found out about kapp->ref(). But it
> > doesn't work. Now, think again and tell me why it won't work. ;-)
> >
> > Hint: kapp->deref() is called each time a last visible window is
> > closed. And you can close a last visible window more than once.
>
> You're right, there's something missing. I just had a thought about
> this, and: when creating a first new KMainWindow after that "deref"
> call, it should call ref again somehow.
>
> So maybe a simpler way would be that every KMainWindow calls ref in
> its ctor and deref in its dtor. This is much simpler, cleaner, and
> should work, no?

Yes, this is much simpler and much more logical. But as Martijn already=20
wrote this will probably break a lot of applications. So I doubt that=20
it's feasible to change the current behavior before KDE 4.0.

Regards,
Ingo

--Boundary-02=_NRc5/HI+449HJ4t
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Description: signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQA/5cRNGnR+RTDgudgRAsN8AKCQdrZLWSHKX+JjNOUM15MQr4M1GgCguGWi
8bW2IxUmCAjl1BvyIttHSIo=
=Rrz+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Boundary-02=_NRc5/HI+449HJ4t--