On 16 Feb 2008, at 12:31, James Cornell wrote: >> > When I installed the Developer Tools from B78's DVD I also noticed > that > GNOME's panels would flicker, and Nautilus would restart. I suspect > they do this so the shortcuts are available to the user without making > them logout then back in again. There must be a better way of doing > it > though, Explorer.exe doesn't crash when you install programs just so > they show up, so it doesn't make any sense.
On Linux, the panel uses FAM/Gamin to update the panel menu contents automatically with no restart. I'd hope we should be able to get the same behaviour on Solaris now that we've patched Gamin to use Solaris file event notification. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
