From 4c7f15548414193758602d7feb9171e2e2f68e86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo@kde.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:05:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] play tricks on the failed-to-be-a-containment applet to make
 dtors a bit safer BUG:208769

svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/; revision=1035450
---
 corona.cpp | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/corona.cpp b/corona.cpp
index 02c01c178..580920826 100644
--- a/corona.cpp
+++ b/corona.cpp
@@ -201,7 +201,14 @@ public:
 
             // in case we got a non-Containment from Applet::loadApplet or
             // a null containment was requested
-            delete applet;
+            if (applet) {
+                // the applet probably doesn't know what's hit it, so let's pretend it can be
+                // initialized to make assumptions in the applet's dtor safer
+                q->addItem(applet);
+                applet->init();
+                q->removeItem(applet);
+                delete applet;
+            }
             containment = new Containment(0, 0, id);
 
             if (pluginName == "null") {