Re: [Libreoffice] Solving an introduced runtime dependency on unreleased Qt version (KDE4 vcl backend)

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:32 +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> It's at least not more broken than having one huge global mutex >:).

        ;-) not so convinced about that; but yes toolkit threading is quite a
fun problem.

>  And the check seems to exist only in QPixmap and LO's Solar Mutex should 
> ensure there's no other problem if this check is avoided. So that looks like 
> this solves the problem, if people can fix their installed Qt library.

        Great; so essentially removing that check prolly does it for us; but
your patch is fine too I guess.

> >     before we start calling Qt methods each time. Hopefully that is
> > reasonably efficient (surely it's just a member variable).
>
>  No, it is not and I expect moving QApplication instances between threads 
> really wouldn't work.

        Right, now I read that method it's something of a nightmare for this
use-case. So your fix seems to be all we can do.

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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