Comment 43 for bug 35786

In the case of the kaffeine part the crash is caused by the use of xine-lib. The xine documentation (http://xinehq.de/index.php/hackersguide#AEN75) states that a xine frontend "must call XInitThreads() before calling the first Xlib function, because xine will access the display from within a different thread than the frontend". On the face of it this would mean that the kaffeine kpart would have to call XInitThreads(). But the kpart runs inside an application (konqueror) that has already accessed other Xlib functions and XInitThreads() cannot be called anymore (see man XInitThreads).
This leaves only the main application, i.e. konqueror. SUSE seem to have a patch to konqueror that makes it call XInitThreads() in kdemain (http://developer.kde.org/~binner/distributor-patches/Novell/nld9/kdebase3-3.2.1-68.32/konq-init-XThreads.diff).
Are there any reasons not to apply such a patch by default?