[PyQt] dbus and PyKDE

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 27 March 2008, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> I'm trying to get a printer applet into KDE (see kde-core-devel),
> however I can't actually use pyKDE because oxygen style and
> KApplication load QtDbus which causes the application to freeze when
> I'm using python-dbus.
>
> For example this app freezes when using KApplication but not when
> using QApplication.
>
> http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/minimal.py
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to work around this?

If KDE4 programs require QtDbus, and it's not possible to have two different 
DBus implementations in the same process then we clearly have a problem - but 
I don't know what the problem is.

Phil