GTK+ allows various settings to be set via the Xsettings[1] protocol.
Now that we have an icon theme for OpenMoko, it would be a good idea to
add an xsettings-daemon to manage and update the Xsettings properties.
Using Xsettings is currently the only way to set the icon theme name in
GTK+.
The advantages of using Xsettings would be that it would allow users to
change aspect of GTK+ without having to restart all their GTK+
applications. Xsettings is designed from the outset to be lightweight,
and is also toolkit agnostic.
OpenedHand has developed a light weight settings daemon[2] that reads
keys from gconf and manages the Xsettings properties. I would like to
propose that this be included in OpenMoko. Settings daemon is already
available in OpenEmbedded[3].
Does anyone have any queries or comments?
Regards,
Thomas
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html
[2] http://svn.o-hand.com/view/matchbox/trunk/settings-daemon/
[3]
http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/settings-daemon
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