On 1 Oct 2013, at 10:41, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that when I set the GSTheme default for a running application, > it recents an NSUserDefaultsChanged notification, but when I change > NSGlobalDomain GSTheme this doesn't happen. This is problematic, because it > means that you can't easily change the theme of all of the running GNUstep > apps without restarting them. > > Looking more closely, it seems that NSUserDefaults periodically checks if > defaults have been changed, but doesn't check for NSGlobalDomain. I'm not > fully able to follow the code that determines whether a domain needs to be > reloaded, but perhaps someone who understands it could take a look?
I tracked down and fixed that bug. > Alternatively, I wonder if having changes to persistent domains post a > distributed notification would be cleaner than regularly polling the FS > (regularly waking up sucks battery life on mobile devices, even if the check > is handled by the VFS layer). If people want to manually modify the plists > of a running application (and not use the defaults tool) then they should > post the notification themselves... That's an interesting idea. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
