Bug 175568

Summary: kde apps should find a way to start even with no dbus session server
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs Reporter: Ivo Anjo <ivo>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Ivo Anjo 2008-11-19 12:49:20 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Today I was trying to start dolphin as another user on my pc and I got the now usual:
<unknown program name>(17812)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server

<unknown program name>(17811)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

(This also happens when I do things like ssh -X)

In kde 4 most apps depend one way or another on dbus running, so I was thinking: is it possible for apps to spawn a dbus server when needed, like they did with dcop? Is there another way around this?

I know I can do export `dbus-launch` or something like that, but for new users that might not be so obvious (i.e. "what the hell is DBUS!?").
Comment 1 Ivo Anjo 2009-05-01 00:06:33 UTC 
Seems to be fixed in current trunk.