Re: GConf and bonobo-config - some ideas

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes: 
> if new gconf things (values, defaults) get installed, do running
> gconfd's get updated?

Nope.

> i don't want to rehash stuff already talked about, so if this was
> discussed previously on the gconf list or somewhere else please let me
> know and i'll go read it.

It's been on gconf-list a bit I think. 

Basic summary is that the backend needs to be able to initiate a
notify. For the XML backend this would probably be done by polling the
filesystem (unless someone has better ideas).  Some backends could
have less crappy ways to do it.

Havoc