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Subject: Re: Review Request: Fix sanitization of dbus path in KMainWindow
From: "Tom Albers" <toma () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-08-11 11:56:01
Message-ID: 20090811115601.17592.97340 () localhost
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> On 2009-08-11 05:23:13, Chani wrote:
> > how will this affect applications that do have a - in their name? and \
> > applications that use the dbus interface of those apps?
>
> thomasl wrote:
> As a dbus path attempt of "/some-app/MainWindow_1" is catched by an assertion in Qt \
> (for being invalid) there's never been a chance that you used it this way
> If we'd however catch the appName in KAboutData to align the dbus path with e.g. \
> qApp->applicationName(), this would -likely- affect at least the KConfig rc path \
> and possibly the way it registers with KGlobalAction :-(
> (if anyone wonders, i had of course a much cooler "." in my failing app ;-)
>
> As the limitiation of the appName would be artificial, one could also choose to \
> change the dbus path system of KMainWindow to e.g. "/MainWindows/MainWindow_1", \
> "/MainWindows/MainWindow_2", etc. - but that would break everything here :-(
Concrete question: will:
QDBusInterface dbus( "org.kde.plasma-desktop", "/App" );
change into
QDBusInterface dbus( "org.kde.plasmadesktop", "/App" );
?
- Tom
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On 2009-08-10 22:27:09, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-08-10 22:27:09)
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>
> Review request for kdelibs.
>
>
> Summary
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>
> As pointed out by Thomas Lübking ( \
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.general/58749 ), KMainWindow \
> attempts to sanitize what it will allow in the dbus path. However as written it \
> would allow the illegal characters "." and "-" to be passed through.
>
> Diffs
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>
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/widgets/kmainwindow.cpp 1009802
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1261/diff
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>
> Testing
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> built kdelibs and ran a KDE application
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
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