Re: Sticky Notes

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au> wrote:
> 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.
> 

SIGHUP is probably the wrong signal for non-daemon processes though - normal
processes should gracefully exit when they recieve it. Its convinient for
signaling daemons as they never recieve normal HUPs and thus its effectively
free to be used for another purpose.

> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 
> -- 
> Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else?


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