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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: ActionProperties merging fix
From:       "David Faure" <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-07-07 15:04:27
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Hmm, yeah, I'm not surprised, ActionProperties for shortcuts were only added for \
saving the user's changes. Can you explain why you install a global file with \
shortcuts, rather than calling kaction->setShortcut? Just curious.

- David


On 2010-07-06 20:58:39, Andras Mantia wrote:
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> Summary
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> When using replaceXMLFile (but it might happen in any case when setXMLFile is \
> called on a gui client), the code tries to copy over the local ActionProperties \
> section to the global one, so it doesn't get lost if the global file has a higher \
> version number. Unfortunately when doing so, it removed all ActionProperties from \
> the global file. This way it is not possible to have global xmlui files containing \
> ActionProperties.  The patch fixes it, by only removing the properties of those \
> actions that are present in the local file as well. This way user shortcut changes \
> are preserved, even if the global file comes with different shortcuts, and global \
> shortcuts are taken in account if they were not overwritten by the user. I suppose \
> this was the intended behavior. 
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> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/xmlgui/kxmlguiversionhandler.cpp 1146838 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4531/diff
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> Testing
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> I did some basic testing with KDevelop, that has this code (view is a KTextEditor \
> view, a KXMLGuiClient): //in KDE >= 4.4 we can use KXMLGuiClient::replaceXMLFile to \
> provide //katepart with out own restructured UI configuration
> QStringList katePartUIs = KGlobal::mainComponent().dirs()->findAllResources("data", \
> "kdevelop/katepartui.rc"); const QString katePartUI = katePartUIs.last();
> const QString katePartLocalUI = KStandardDirs::locateLocal("data", \
> "kdevelop/katepartui.rc"); view->replaceXMLFile(katePartUI, katePartLocalUI);
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> Thanks,
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> Andras
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 <pre>Hmm, yeah, I&#39;m not surprised, ActionProperties for shortcuts were only \
added for saving the user&#39;s changes. Can you explain why you install a global \
file with shortcuts, rather than calling kaction-&gt;setShortcut? Just curious.</pre> \
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<p>- David</p>


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<div>Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.</div>
<div>By Andras Mantia.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated 2010-07-06 20:58:39</i></p>




<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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   <pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">When using replaceXMLFile (but it might happen \
in any case when setXMLFile is called on a gui client), the code tries to copy over \
the local ActionProperties section to the global one, so it doesn&#39;t get lost if \
the global file has a higher version number. Unfortunately when doing so, it removed \
all ActionProperties from the global file. This way it is not possible to have global \
xmlui files containing ActionProperties.  The patch fixes it, by only removing the \
properties of those actions that are present in the local file as well. This way user \
shortcut changes are preserved, even if the global file comes with different \
shortcuts, and global shortcuts are taken in account if they were not overwritten by \
the user. I suppose this was the intended behavior.</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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   <pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">I did some basic testing with KDevelop, that \
                has this code (view is a KTextEditor view, a KXMLGuiClient):
        //in KDE &gt;= 4.4 we can use KXMLGuiClient::replaceXMLFile to provide
        //katepart with out own restructured UI configuration
        QStringList katePartUIs = \
KGlobal::mainComponent().dirs()-&gt;findAllResources(&quot;data&quot;, \
&quot;kdevelop/katepartui.rc&quot;);  const QString katePartUI = katePartUIs.last();
        const QString katePartLocalUI = KStandardDirs::locateLocal(&quot;data&quot;, \
&quot;kdevelop/katepartui.rc&quot;);  view-&gt;replaceXMLFile(katePartUI, \
katePartLocalUI); </pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/xmlgui/kxmlguiversionhandler.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(1146838)</span></li>

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