From kde-core-devel Mon Jun 23 00:21:39 2008 From: Andreas Pakulat Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:21:39 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: kded won't start anymore Message-Id: <20080623002139.GG5308 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=121418055412366 On 23.06.08 01:41:43, Andreas Hartmetz wrote: > 2008/6/16 Andreas Pakulat : > > On 16.06.08 14:20:50, Michael Pyne wrote: > >> On Monday 16 June 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > >> Unfortunately every time I startup I have to go to JuK and re-select the > >> multimedia keys global shortcut, I assume related to this bug but I'm not sure > >> yet. > > > > I wonder wether the new kded service for shortcuts is really worth all > > this hassle. Seriously. Maybe its just me, but somehow the kde3 version > > of global shortcuts _works_ a lot better (even though its probably not > > so nice API/code). > > > To be fair one should mention that a fair share of problems comes from > kded being unstable due to things like favicons code crashing, inotify > code locking up, unexpected dbus problems... > I do have to take the blame for not considering earlier > internationalization and actions belonging to different components in > an application, though :/ I guess that was a bit over the top from me anyway, especially seeing that the current implementation is needed on some platforms. > > I guess the next step is to make the release team aware of this and make > > sure this is considered a showstopper bug for the 4.1 release. > > > Sorry, I haven't read k-c-d for a couple of days. I have a feeling > that this may have something to do with some multimedia keys not being > handled properly in Qt. Can somebody say with certainty that the > problem only triggers with "exotic" keys? I wanted to tackle this today, but didn't get around to it. I'll try to do a bit digging tomorrow, especially checking what the assert tries to check. As I already offered to Michael I can easily help either of you to get "multimedia" keypresses reported by X11 for any of the keys you actually have on your keyboards if that helps. Andreas -- Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.