Re: installing schemas

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Erik,

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:10, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm having some problems installing schemas. I install the schemas into
> /etc/gconf/schemas/<name>.schemas, and then run
> 
> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
> gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/schemas/<name>.schemas
> 
> 
> The schema is installed into the defaults database, but users don't see
> the default config values until they restart the gconf daemon.
> 
> I've looked at a couple of other applications, which use the same
> process for installing schemas. I've never had any problems when
> installing other apps, while I need to restart the daemon to have my own
> app working.
> 
> Should I just install the schemas and put a note in the docs about them
> needing to restart gconfd before starting the app? Or is there a better
> solution?

	I don't recall seeing complaints about this before, but what you're
seeing is the expected behaviour AFAICS ...

	There is no way for a daemon running as one user to notice changes made
to the database underneath it.

Cheers,
Mark.