Version: 0.9.4-1 (using Devel) OS: MS Windows Installed from: Compiled sources When the kdewin installer can't install a package because a file is in use, it displays an alert Error Can't remove C:/path/to/file.exe [Cancel] but if you click Cancel, the installer completes and indicates everything is fine. A dialog that says [Cancel] yet installation continues leaves the user and the system in a confused state. It would be better if the alert had three choices [Abort] [Retry] [Ignore] Abort would exit the installer immediately, Retry would try again (allowing you to e.g., kill off the running process), and Ignore would continue, *but* the installer at the end should indicate that some files were not successfully updated.
With bug 181140 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181140 a feature has been implemented which kills all running kde processes before installing/removing any files. This reduces the amount of messages described in this bug very much.
In fact installing only happens if no KDE application including dbus-daemon is running from the related install directory.