On Thursday 22 January 2009, Ivan Čukić wrote: > The manager could be fixed to the plasma binary since it is, at the moment,
this is probably the most sensible place for such a thing without creating a kded module for it. > the only place where you can change the theme, but that could prove to be a > bad solution (IIRC plasma-mid is a separate binary and it should have the > configuration options for theme) and maybe someone wants to use other > plasma- based apps without plasma the shell. well, another thing i considered was putting a KDirWatch on the config file in Plasma::Theme and re-reading it when it changes. there are a few unfortunate things about this, such as taking up a few watch handles for a fairly trivial use case and, probably more importantly, re- reading the config file a lot more than necessary as plasmarc can get saved out with modifications a lot more often than the theme is changed. it might make sense to have a separate file for "plasma enabled apps global settings" such as the theme (a small kconfig update script could migrate the settings easily) ... or maybe that's a pre-optimization. in any case, i think the config file change reaction is probably the simplest and most foolproof mechanism in this case. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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