Bug 305400

Summary:	Kate desktop-file breaks session restore by using -b (blocking) option
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Evstifeev Roman <someuniquename>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, q.kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kate/ca124292abac05cd601345e1d1e09eeee845f972	Version Fixed In:

Description Evstifeev Roman 2012-08-18 17:24:56 UTC

Default Kate .desktop-file uses --block option in command line, which leads to opening multiple kate processes and breaks KDE session restore when it tries to restore all of them.

With --block option, opening every new file with kate leads to creation new kate process in the background. If user opened a lot of files, and then logout\login, KDE session restore will open that many kate windows, and session data (like enabled plugins) will be lost (bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156330)

To fix this temporarily user must change kate command line by hand. But this will lead to bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286717 - kate will loose it's ability to handle remote file with KIO properly.

To fix this in the code default kate desktop-file should not contain "-b" option.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 steveren 2012-10-16 10:17:31 UTC

It's bugged me for ages, this one.

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-28 15:55:36 UTC

Git commit 5e8e200e3b6a68d81bf43ae7be777c12ed09995e by Christoph Cullmann.
Committed on 28/10/2012 at 16:54.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

try it without -b to fix session restore
I think it was added to fix other problems with opening files in dolphin, but lets see

M  +1    -1    kate/data/kate.desktop

http://commits.kde.org/kate/5e8e200e3b6a68d81bf43ae7be777c12ed09995e

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-28 16:01:49 UTC

Git commit d3ff8955b85bbfe398eec3f4e64f73280a83e5fd by Christoph Cullmann.
Committed on 28/10/2012 at 17:01.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

even better fix: ignore -b on session restore

M  +4    -0    kate/app/katemain.cpp
M  +1    -1    kate/data/kate.desktop

http://commits.kde.org/kate/d3ff8955b85bbfe398eec3f4e64f73280a83e5fd

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-28 17:25:25 UTC

Git commit ca124292abac05cd601345e1d1e09eeee845f972 by Christoph Cullmann.
Committed on 28/10/2012 at 18:24.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

even better fix: no session restore for pure clients

M  +3    -4    kate/app/katemain.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kate/ca124292abac05cd601345e1d1e09eeee845f972