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    TextDocument: remove actions from contextmenu on hide already · d940a88e
    Friedrich W. H. Kossebau authored
    Summary:
    Fixes a bug of context menu entries being duplicated each time the context
    menu is shown with another document in same cases.
    This happened, as each document instance tracks what actions it adds to a
    context menu, but only removes the actions once the menu is shown again.
    Which fails if the menu is shown with another document than before, but the
    same context menu object is reused again, thus still having the actions from
    the other document.
    
    Small recap, as the situation is a bit complex:
    
    A context menu in KDevelop text documents is triggered by the method
    KateViewInternal::contextMenuEvent(), where KateViewInternal is an internal
    QWidget class of KTextEditor::ViewPrivate, which is the
    actual KTextEditor::View implementation. That KateViewInternal method asks its
    container KTextEditor::ViewPrivate for the contextMenu() and calls popup() on it.
    
    KTextEditor::ViewPrivate::contextMenu() itself either returns a user-set
    context menu, or queries the toplevel KXMLGUIClient of the XMLGUI structure
    it belongs to for a "menu" container by the name "ktexteditor_popup".
    This container is defined by katepart5ui.rc
    <Menu name="ktexteditor_popup" noMerge="0">, and KTE plugins can extend this
    with a respecive <Menu name="ktexteditor_popup" noMerge="1"> in their ui.rc
    files.
    
    For some yet to explore internal reason, if there is a plugin with a
    "ktexteditor_popup" menu to merge in, then the QMenu object instance is the
    same across all KTextEditor::View instances, otherwise each view has its own.
    More, even per view one gets a new QMenu object every time the view becomes the
    active one again (and thus merging into the app XMLGUI structure is done).
    Due to this the duplicated entries in the context menu are currently only
    happening if a plugin also provides a "ktexteditor_popup" menu to merge in,
    like the CTags one does.
    
    In a perfect world we would have a symmetric signal
    KTextEditor::View::contextMenuAboutToHide for the
    KTextEditor::View::contextMenuAboutToShow signal, so we could unplug our
    per-view instance custom menu additions. As fallback (and assuming the QMenu
    is always show as popup) there is the QMenu::aboutToHide signal for use
    instead. This was once was used here with by commit
    b837392d. Where though the connection was
    made to the contextmenu object at the time of the creation of the view.
    Which, at least these days, as pointed out above, runs risk to miss the
    change of the context menu object.
    At least it was found at the time already that approach was not working out,
    commit  4d63d74c use a new approach instead
    to clear the menu from the old actions only right before the/a menu was
    shown again. Sadly the commit message does not explain where exactly
    things failed, and just described the symptom: "don't trust Qt's aboutToHide
    signal as there seemed to be many cases where it didn't fire as I thought
    it would be.". And points to
    https://blog.qt.io/blog/2010/02/23/unpredictable-exec/ where though any
    relation is not immediately obvious, as there should be little chance that
    the context menu is triggered to be shown again from any actions in the
    menu. And if the menu object was instead deleted without emitting any
    aboutToHide signal, some shutdown would be going on which should be caught
    by other means.
    
    This patch reverts to relying to the aboutToHide signal again, but making
    sure this is done for the respective menu instance currently shown. As well
    as also catches any intermediate shutdown of the menu instance as well as
    the document itself.
    
    Test Plan:
    Used with & without CTags plugin, opening and using context menus on
    different views incl. multiple views on same document with splitted view
    areas.
    
    Reviewers: #kdevelop
    
    Subscribers: anthonyfieroni, rjvbb, kdevelop-devel
    
    Tags: #kdevelop
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22424
    d940a88e