[maemo-developers] reloading a status bar plugin

[From: b0unc3]

2010/2/24 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>

> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 20:06 +0100, ext b0unc3 wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've created a statusbar plugin, now I want to reload it (eg. when the
> > configuration file changes).
> > What is the best way to do that ?
>
> If the plugin can be unloaded and reloaded cleanly (meaning, it does not
> crash hildon-status-menu :)), you could touch the .desktop file in some
> way (e.g. increase version number inside the file) to make HSM unload
> and reload you.
>

I cannot change the .desktop contents by user.


>
> If your plugin is not unloadable, you can do this ugly trick (other
> plugins can react to this somehow):
>
> dsmetool -k /usr/bin/hildon-status-menu
> dsmetool -t /usr/bin/hildon-status-menu
>

This is the current way I'm doing that, but, as you said, it's ugly.


>
> -Kimmo
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Daniele Maio.
>
>
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