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

[Tim Jansen]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 09:32, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.
> couldn't you use KDirWatch and let that notify you when the file has
> changed, rather than constant manual reloading?

Instead of re-loading every 60s, yes. But it makes things even more 
complicated, because I don't get away with watching a single directory - the 
file could be in one of the KDEDIRS,  for example for Kiosk mode.
And it wouldnt solve the races.

bye...