I’ve just pushed a change to kdepim 4.4 which removes this annoying dialog in a few annoying cases.
For users, this dialog was coming up, and not seeming to give any useful information, and when dismissed, the application was usable.
Showing the dialog was actually a bug that was fixed some time in February 2010 with improvements to the kdepim libraries, but because there was no KDEPIM applications 4.5 release, didn’t make it to users.
The fix was to make the applications not call dangerous API with sub-eventloops.
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April 5, 2011 at 10:15 am |
You’re my Hero of the day! Thx a lot!
April 5, 2011 at 10:46 am |
Thank you! Now to roll this up on my mom’s computer, she was getting crazy with this!
April 5, 2011 at 11:14 am |
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268120#c2
April 5, 2011 at 11:35 am |
>and when dismissed, the application was usable.
actually “when dismissed, kmail crashes, but restarting kmail doesn’t show it again”
April 5, 2011 at 11:46 am |
This dialog drove me nuts! Thanks a lot for fixing, I hope I’ll never see that dialog again 😉
April 5, 2011 at 12:33 pm |
Great! Thanks!!
I recently got my mother started using Kmail, and it was frustrating seeing this every first startup of kmail, having to close it, and restart Kmail afterwards.
It was one of those ugly “just close this and start again” things…
April 5, 2011 at 12:47 pm |
You rock! This is really annoying and was slowly getting on my nerves.
Is there a planned 4.4.x KDEPIM release that will include your fix?
April 5, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
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