Harry Lu wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:16 +0000, Darren Kenny wrote: >> Glynn, w.r.t. the alacarte patch, from what I know it was meant to provide a >> mechanism where the >> panel could be notified of a change in the menu files - this was necessary >> due to a lack of file >> monitoring support in GNOME VFS - it should go away once we have the ability >> to port libfam or Gamin >> to Solaris, but until then it'll be necessary so that the user can see the >> changes made reflected in >> the launch menu... >> >> >From what I can tell there should be an alacarte patch to match... >> >> Darren. > Glynn, > > Yes, I made those alacarte related patches so that it can work on > Solaris without FAM. They are > > alacarte-01-force-reload.diff > gnome-menus-04-support-alacarte.diff > gnome-panel-14-support-alacarte.diff > > And I have sent them for review before. QA has verified these patches > are working.
Okay, I should have clarified - I know what they do, but not quite sure how they do having done a quick grep last night for various code bits in the patch. Doesn't seem to make sense with the current 2.16.x tarballs, so that's why a bit more investigation was needed. Glynn
