* Sam Spilsbury <smspil...@gmail.com> schrieb: > 2011/1/25 Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com>: > > I'm wary of a "config" file the window manager reads. What users want to do > > is go into the application and run some control panel that says "now the > > shortcut X+Y+Z does this" and it starts happening, and they can then change > > their mind and it goes back to the way it was before. Having to write a file > > to do this and signal the compositor that it changed does not sound like a > > very nice design. > > The compositor can just use inotify to watch changes on the file, much > like the way Compiz does so.
Please keep in mind that inotify only works (reliably) on local (and *maybe* a few remote) filesystems. I'd rather suggest adding a little 9P fileserver to the compositor, where such configurations can be directly written in. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
