Fwd: Re: [Panel-devel] Patch for superkaramba: Auto-reload themes on change

[Matt]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:35, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:03, Ryan Nickell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 23:22 +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > Attached is a patch which auto-reloads the themes if they have changed
> > > on disk (e.g. by editing). This makes Superkaramba feel like a really
> > > snappy development environment. Ok to commit this to svn?
> >
> > I've applied the patch and it seems that when it does detect the
> > changes, it reloads.  However, when it reloads for me, it moves the
> > entire theme slightly, and it also doesn't always pick up that the file
> > changed on disk.
> > I was editing the .theme file in vi, and then saving.  Am I missing
> > something that would cause this behavior using your patch?
>
> I have also seen the moving of the theme, but I have no idea what could be
> the problem here. The patch does nothing different than what happens when
> the user manually reloads, doesn't it?

While we're on the topic of reload, can we add a dcop call to reload the
 theme from within a theme.  I need this so that the configure menu can be
 updated from time to time (it's only updated on initWidget).

Matt