Re: Problem with popup menu cache system

[RUAUDEL Frédéric <ruaudel embl fr>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:10 +0200, RUAUDEL Frédéric wrote:
>  
>
> > [snip]
> > So if I'm right, I would like to know if an extension has access to a 
> > function of Nautilus which asks it to refresh all the menus ? If not, is 
> > it feasible in a near future ?
> >    
>
> There is no such function at the moment. I'm not really sure how it
> would work either. Its normally the case that nautilus calls into the
> module when it needs some information, but what you propose is the
> opposite. But this means the extension must be running already so that
> it can call nautilus, and that is not typically the case.
>
> How would you detect that the menus need refreshing? I guess it might be
> possible to register a source in the mainloop for this.
>  
I have a GUI config tool that allow a user to add new configuration. The 
configurations are stored into GConf and with the notification mechanism 
of GConf, my extension knows when new configs are added. Then it would 
be great that in the notification callback of the extension I can call a 
nautilus function to ask it to refresh the current selected menus.

> Anyway, i'm not conceptually against having this, even if i'm not
> immediately sure how it would be implemented. I'll gladly take patches
> for it.
>
>  
I have opened a feature request in Bugzilla, so we can add patches & 
ideas there :

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339273

I'm not sure I'm able to create such a patch but maybe if I have some 
time to dive into nautilus' code, I will give it a try. Maybe if you 
could just give me some hints on where the menu caching is managed in 
the nautilus code (filename and/or some function names), I would 
appreciate. Meanwhile, I'll glady take patches too :)

Best regards,

Fred

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