On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> wrote: > Capturing some of the discussion in bug 542: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=542 > > During discussions on pkg-discuss at opensolaris, Ludo > (ludovic.champenois at sun.com) asked how IPS (new > Image Packaging System) would cause gnome-panel > to refresh its menus when a package containing new > menu items was delivered. > > IPS will contain mechanisms to allow automatic refresh of > specified SMF services when certain files are installed/ > removed/upgraded (see bug 578 > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=542 for > details). > > Is there anyway for gnome-panel to re-read the menu > configs w/o a hard restart?
Supposedly, the gnome menu is updated automatically when .desktop file are added, due file monitoring using fam/gamin/inotify. So, I would imagine as long as we have gamin hooked into OpenSolaris' file monitoring; things would be good. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
