Re: installing schemas

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:35, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 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.

	The actual solution for this would be to have some way that you could
trigger the daemon to re-load the database, notice any changes that have
been made and fire off notifications for everything that has changed.

Cheers,
Mark.