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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdialog takes too long in non-KDE environment
From:       Ben Armstrong <synrg () sanctuary ! nslug ! ns ! ca>
Date:       2007-04-09 16:47:43
Message-ID: 20070409134743.2e1b5e76 () sanctuary ! edennet
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:15:41 +0200
David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> Yes, and kde programs launched in a non-kde environment automatically start
> kdeinit, which starts dcopserver --suicide. But what puzzles me is that kdialog
> should exit immediately, not 10 seconds later when dcopserver exits...
> 
> >    dcopid="$(dcopserver --serverid 2>&1)"
> Interesting, didn't know that one.
> if kcheckrunning >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> might be faster.

Aha.  I didn't know about that.  Thanks.

> Good workaround. However I think this is a bug, kdialog should exit immediately....
> But as you say it doesn't happen always - in my tests here it does exit immediately...
>
> A problem might be when launching it again before the dcopserver of the previous
> kdialog exited; or just before it exits (race condition?).

Perhaps.  Though I thought I tested for that.  But I should really go
back and look at it the various possibilities more systematically.

Ben
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