XSETTINGS registry update proposal

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Tue Jun 10 01:48:09 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:32 +0200, Stephan Arts wrote:
>> I was looking for the XSETTINGS used by gtk, and I came across this thread[0]:
>>
>> Consider this a poke, any news on the subject? Are these keys going to
>> be added to the XSETTINGS-Registry Spec?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>> [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-April/008110.html
>
> I've also added another one to GTK+ recently:
>
> Fontconfig/Timestamp
> Timestamp (seconds from epoch) of the last time fotnconfig's
> configuration or font database changed.
>
> Currently gnome-settings-daemon monitors fontconfig configuration files
> for and updates the above key upon changes.  Gtk+ then notices the
> change and:
>
>  - Makes fontconfig reread configuration,
>  - Pango drop fontset caches,
>  - Widgets redraw, possibly using new fonts and settings.

Hmm, I noticed the spec is on the wiki.

Is it ok if I add the missing entries myself?

-
Stephan


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