Re: Sticky Notes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:18:03PM +1300, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 23:17, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Okay, how do you launch them ? I installed the RPM, the new applet
> > did not appear in the panel list of applet. I  thinkm forbiding manual
> > launch is an acceptable option only if the panel autodetects newly
> > installed applets, which doesn't seems to be the case right now.
> > One should not have to log-out/log-in to be able to lunch a newly 
> > installed applet, right ?
> 
> 	Yeah, that did suck. I've just fixed it on HEAD by rechecking every 5
> seconds.

  Well I'm not sure it's the Right Thing to do, just among the list of
possible candidate fixes :-)

> 	The arbitrary 5 seconds isn't as expensive as it sounds.
> bonobo-activation caches the results for queries client side and resets
> the cache when it detects something has changed. However, this doesn't

   okay,

> 	So it still sucks a little bit - but I think in most cases users
> wouldn't notice ... I'm sure Michael would welcome bonobo-activation
> patches, though :-)

  No idea, I'm technically lost in those part of the code, I let the people
in charge evaluate what the right solution might be, but thanks for that
first step :-)

Daniel

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