Fix recent files menu on old KDE in a different way #6612
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Fixes #6587.
This PR reverts #3872 and applies an alternative fix for #3741. In the previous approach,
KAcceleratorManager::setNoAccelwas called with theMainWindowinstance. This, however, leads to a crash in certain cases as reported by #6587.KXmlGui library registers a startup function for
QCoreApplicationwhich may install aKCheckAcceleratorsglobal event filter, usingKCheckAcceleratorsInitializer. The event filter is supposed to be installed only if the application directly links to KXmlGui, but it was always installed prior to KXmlGui 5.55.0.The new approach has two advantages:
As far as know, CentOS 7, Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 10 ships with buggy versions of the library. Once all of them gets unsupported, we may entirely remove the workaround.