Re: Sticky Notes

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
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> The current behaviour is that the menus for a particular panel are only
> rescanned when the panel is started, as people have noticed. Rescanning
> all the time is expensive, so I don't think that will be very nice. The
> idiomatic Unix-style solution would be to make SIGUSR1 or SIGHUP make
> the panel rescan the menus and panel applets, but that's now a GNOME
> 2.3/2.4 feature request, if anything.

IMHO, bonobo-activation should use directory monitoring to automagically
detect when a new .server file is installed, and add it to its database or
whatever.

Thanks,
James