Bug 90334

Summary: kdevassistant keeps restarting itself
Product: [Applications] kdevelop Reporter: illogic-al <illogical1>
Component: generalAssignee: kdevelop-bugs-null
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description illogic-al 2004-09-27 18:22:10 UTC 
Version:           3.1.0 (using KDE 3.3.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.7-1.mm.6mdkcustom

I'm using KDE 3.3.0 and Kdevelop compiled from source and whenever running kdevassistant (documentation viewer) from either the menu or the console the programs keeps on spawning new instances of itself.

The problem goes away if the line
UseAssistant=true
is removed from the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdevassistantrc
Comment 1 illogic-al 2004-10-16 16:28:56 UTC 
still appears in 3.1.1. effectively making kdevassistant useless.
Comment 2 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2004-10-17 04:32:23 UTC 
I confirm (kdevelop cvs HEAD 14 October 2004)
rm kdevassistantrc
open kdevassitant
Go to Search view
Then in Settings -> Configure -> Documention -> Other
check the box:  [x] Use Kdevelop Assistant To Browse Documentation, click OK
Quit KDevAssistant
Restart it: multiple instances pop up until you kdekillall kdevassistant
Comment 3 illogic-al 2004-10-17 04:46:30 UTC 
more info. 
It LastPage=3 and UseAssistant=true need to both be in the kdeassistantrc it seems. 
Actually anything except 0 will do here. I think "lastpage" is the documentation tab pages
0 = default
1 = index
2 = finder
etc, etc
Comment 4 Jens Dagerbo 2004-10-17 06:21:31 UTC 
CVS commit by dagerbo: 

Fix the forkbomb created by KDevAssistant  when it was told to use
KDevAssistant to remotely open documentation...

CCBUG: 90334


  M +6 -0      docglobalconfigwidget.cpp   1.10
  M +6 -0      documentation_part.cpp   1.23


--- kdevelop/parts/documentation/docglobalconfigwidget.cpp  #1.9:1.10
@@ -100,4 +100,10 @@ DocGlobalConfigWidget::DocGlobalConfigWi
     
     useAssistant_box->setChecked(m_part->isAssistantUsed());
+        
+        // Having app-specific settings isn't pretty, but this setting is nonsensical in kdevassistant
+        if ( kapp->instanceName().find("kdevassistant") != -1 )
+        {
+                useAssistant_box->hide();
+        }
 }
 

--- kdevelop/parts/documentation/documentation_part.cpp  #1.22:1.23
@@ -591,4 +591,10 @@ QCString DocumentationPart::startAssista
 bool DocumentationPart::isAssistantUsed() const
 {
+        // hack to solve BR #90334 - don't call kdevassistant via DCOP if we ARE kdevassistant
+        if ( kapp->instanceName().find("kdevassistant") != -1 )
+        {
+                return false;
+        }
+        
     return m_assistantUsed;
 }
Comment 5 illogic-al 2004-10-17 06:40:26 UTC 
tested. it works. I dub thee fixed.