Re: GConf group of changes

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Simon Bates wrote:

> We draw a keyboard onscreen that is dependent on a number of settings 
> such as
>
> key_width
> key_spacing
> key_height
> word_complete
> number_predictions
>
> We are thinking of storing these in a GConf area /apps/gok/layout
>
> We are presenting the user with a dialog box for modifying these 
> settings that has an OK button. When the user selects the OK button we 
> were thinking of writing any changed settings to GConf.
>
> Now, if the keyboard drawing code is listening for changes at 
> /apps/gok/layout it seems that it will get potentially 5 update 
> notifications (one for each key listed above) and that will result in 5 
> keyboard redaws.
>
> I was wondering if you could tell me if we are thinking of using GConf 
> in the correct way? I have tried using a change set but many 
> notifications still result. Could you tell me please if there is 
> currently any way to communicate to GConf that a group of changes should 
> only result in one notification?

These variables look like integers to me. In that case you could save 
them as a single list of integers. Changeing that list would then result 
in a single notification...

Andreas

Disclaimer: I am just learning to use gconf myself.

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