Yes, I know about GSettings and use them a lot to store static options.
Thanks a lot in any case.
Here I wanted to store a reference to a gtkWidget that is created in the
preferences dialog.
The way I wanted to do is: gtkWidget is created in pref.js, a global
variable is used to reference the widget, and the extension knows that
the widget is created and directs some output there.
One way I was thinking about before was to direct output to a GSettings
key and react on this change in prefs.js, but that is not efficient.
Another way was to direct output to a file, and read the file in
prefs.js. I do not like either solution.
For me the best deal would be to share some variable space between both
extension and prefs.js, but as far as I know they are in different
processes.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again,
Vadim.
On 04/10/2013 06:55 PM, Amy wrote:
> Hi Vadim,
>
> Could you just use gsettings (i.e. the same thing that you use with
> `prefs.js` to store extension settings) for this?
>
> In the `prefs.js` your widget does a:
>
> let settings = Convenience.getSettings();
> settings.set_int('my-setting-name', 1);
>
> and in the extension you connect to the change:
>
> // in your init() say
> let settings = Convenience.getSettings();
> // in your enable() say
> settings.connect('changed::my-setting-name', callback)
>
> So `callback` is called whenever a user changes the setting in the
> prefs widget.
>
> (Here Convenience.getSettings is the one from the official gnome shell
> extensions
> - https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/tree/lib/convenience.js)
>
>
> On 11 April 2013 08:38, Vadim <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if there is a common way to share a variable
> between an
> extension and the preferences dialog.
>
> Let say, I want to set some "global".variable within the preferences
> dialog (temporary until it is closed), and the running extension
> should
> react on this, i.e. it should see that the variable was set.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vadim
>
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