config-aware widgets (was: Re: Experiences with KDE-CVS at LinuxWorldExpo)

[Waldo Bastian]

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>On Monday 11 November 2002 12:29, Tim Jansen wrote:
>>  My current 'solution' is to reload the configuration every 60s in all
>>  processes and check whether there were any changes. The part is quite
>>  complicated and error-prone.
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>couldn't you use KDirWatch and let that notify you when the file has changed,
>rather than constant manual reloading?

I would rather put one process in charge of the config file and let 
the other processes communicate their changes to this process, what 
kind of information is stored in the config files that all 3 
processes need to update it?

Cheers,
Waldo