An analysis about a generic desktop application configuration management system

[Maks Orlovich]

> But if the control panel changes a setting and konqueror is supposed to
> notice, you have to provide a way of telling konqueror about it.  That's a
> cross-process notification.

The notification here is trivial. Keeping things consistent is not, but is 
unlikely to matter in a desktop setting. IOW, you don't normally have dirty 
writes in memory for long.