From kde-core-devel  Wed Jan 26 17:52:02 2005
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:52:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Konq Bookmarks/Hidstory (Was: D-BUS implementing DCOP - some minor
Message-Id: <200501261852.06230.bastian () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 26 January 2005 16:58, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> We actually have a bug sort of based on this. KonqHistoryManager does
> broadcasts to konqueror-*, but the universal sidebar does a history view
> inside a kicker process =3D> it does not receive update notifications.
> Hmm, it should probably add a second call to 'kicker' then, shouldn't be
> /too/ horrid performance-wise, though quite ugly. ..

Better solution: use a signal instead.

> (If you only care about D-BUS, skip this bit, it's me rambling about stuff
> KDE may or may not need)
> Though, I must add that we also have a similar thing done for /bookmarks/,
> but it uses DCOP signals -- good, but synchronization is happening
> exclusively via the file --- bad. It may be nice to have something common
> for those two that helps keep things up-to-date, and handle the highly
> tricky case of the owner of the file exiting (though we probably still wa=
nt
> to sync to the disk to help the starting apps --- though have to be caref=
ul
> not to have a race between reading a file and new updates -- timestamps,
> here we come!); though making this nicely performing and completely race
> free would be quite difficult;  anyway, I digress.

When I add kded-modules I had these kind of simple bookkeeping tasks in min=
d.=20
Instead of doing all kinds of difficult locking, just handle it centrally i=
n=20
kded.

Cheers,
Waldo
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