Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

At least for me the following behaviour is reproducable:
- open some Qt application which has at least one QComboBox or some menus on top bar to tap to
- run "killall hildon-desktop" or "dsmetool -k /usr/bin/hildon-desktop; dsmetool -t -U user /usr/bin/hildon-desktop"

Now try to get away without rebooting the device... only option is to killall the qt app(s) that were running in the background via SSH connection.

Is this a bug in Qt or is there another more "gentle" way to restart hildon-desktop than ones above?

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

Why do you want to restart the desktop process?

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

To refresh the icons in Hildon launcher menu?
For me it's usual behavior.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

Actually to refresh about everything (this is actually Theme Customizer related question) without having to reboot the device. Built-in theme choosen app (personalisation_app) seems to do this without actually restartin the hildon-desktop. If I only knew what that closed source app is doing when applying new theme I would be very happy.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

So, in reality, you want to mimic, or replicate, the behaviour of another application?

Since dbus is used for many things, I'd suggest that you listen in on it while the other application "does its magic" to see what's happening. If you're lucky, it's a simple command that is sent that you then can implement in your own application.

If some other communication is used, you'll have to get more creative and that's perhaps too big a scope.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

quickshot: killall -g ?

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

Personalization_app doesn't ideally switch between themes, after it you can see some relics of old theme.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

Yeah, I know that. I'd only like to see how it reloads the icons on the application launcher menu. Rest is pretty trivial to do.

And I still think it's a Qt bug. Gtk+ apps can handle the shutdown + startup of hildon-desktop without issues.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

I don't want to replicate the behaviour, but it would indeed be nice to know how the personalisation_app is doing the things.

I already tried scanning the DBus and there's no (extra) activity there.

Re: Bug in Qt (?), Qt apps freks out if hildon-desktop is restarted
 

What does the hildon-desktop theme option do?

hildon-desktop -theme theme : Load the specified theme