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The reason it was not applied is probably because I forgot to submit it :) 
Thanks for taking care of doing it.

If I am not mistaken the reason KModifierKeyInfoProvider inherits from QWidget 
is historical: it used to be necessary to inherit from QWidget to be able to 
setup an XEvent filter, but it is no longer the case.

- Aurélien Gâteau


On Aug. 7, 2012, 9:21 p.m., Frank Reininghaus wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 7, 2012, 9:21 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs, Michael Leupold and Aurélien Gâteau.
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> Description
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> The base class of KModifierKeyInfoProvider is QWidget although it seems that 
> this class does not really need anything that QWidget provides and QObject 
> doesn't.
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> This seems to be related to Dolphin crashes that can happen with some styles 
> and some particular settings, see also 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264923.
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> According to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264923#c11, Aurelien wrote 
> the patch which I'm uploading here. Is there any information on why 
> KModifierKeyInfoProvider was derived from QWidget in the first place, or why 
> Aurelien's patch never made it into kdelibs?
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> The root cause of the crash is probably something else, but having a class 
> inherit QWidget rather than QObject when it's not actually needed looks 
> strange to me in any case. Unless there's a good reason that I'm overlooking 
> here, of course - in that case, I'm curious what it is :-)
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> This addresses bug 303169.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303169
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> Diffs
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>   kdeui/util/kmodifierkeyinfoprovider_p.h 2df79bc 
>   kdeui/util/kmodifierkeyinfoprovider_x11.cpp c6477f9 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105920/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Frank Reininghaus
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