Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:54 +0100, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:44 +0100, Piñeiro wrote:
> 
> > In the gtk side, I don't know much about the XSettings, but I suppose
> > that you are talking more general, and XSetting will manage all the
> > gtk modules to be loaded (engines, and so on). So XSettings would have
> > the lists of modules instead of the envvar, and inform to the
> > applications that this setting has changed. In this case is just
> > load/unload the a11y modules as any other gtk modules.
> 
> AFAIK GTK+ already reads the XSettings variable and loads modules
> accordingly in gtk_init(). The filling of that property is currently
> done by gnome-settings-daemon.

That's not the problem I was mentioning though. The problem is that
loading the module if the XSetting changes *after* your application has
started.