[maemo-developers] reloading a status bar plugin

[From: pHilipp Zabel]

2010/2/24 b0unc3 <b0unc3 at email.it>:
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> 2010/2/24 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>
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>> 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 ?
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>> 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.
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> I cannot change the .desktop contents by user.

You could touch it with sudo some-helper-script added to the sudoers file.
But I wonder, why do you need to reload the plugin at all? Can't you
just reload the configuration from the running status menu applet and
adapt it accordingly?

regards
Philipp