Re: Major problem with gconf mandatory settings.

From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: Marcin Antczak <marcin antczak idea net pl>, gconf-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Major problem with gconf mandatory settings.
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:13:13 +0000

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 02:50, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> It is usually pretty simple to add support to the apps; in every place
> that the app sets the value of the control on the prefs page (usually
> once on loading the prefs page, and then in response to gconf
> notifications), you should add a gtk_widget_set_sensitive() based on the
> gconf writable flag.

It's even written into the HIG that apps should do this, so any that don't should have HIG-compliance bugs filed against them :)

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-sensitivity.html#controls-locked

Cheeri,
Calum.

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References:
- Re: Major problem with gconf mandatory settings.
  - From: Havoc Pennington

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