Xsettings in OpenMoko

[Thomas Wood]

GTK+ allows various settings to be set via the Xsettings[1] protocol. 
Now that we have an icon theme for OpenMoko, it would be a good idea to 
add an xsettings-daemon to manage and update the Xsettings properties. 
Using Xsettings is currently the only way to set the icon theme name in 
GTK+.

The advantages of using Xsettings would be that it would allow users to 
change aspect of GTK+ without having to restart all their GTK+ 
applications. Xsettings is designed from the outset to be lightweight, 
and is also toolkit agnostic.

OpenedHand has developed a light weight settings daemon[2] that reads 
keys from gconf and manages the Xsettings properties. I would like to 
propose that this be included in OpenMoko. Settings daemon is already 
available in OpenEmbedded[3].

Does anyone have any queries or comments?


Regards,

Thomas


[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html

[2] http://svn.o-hand.com/view/matchbox/trunk/settings-daemon/

[3] 
http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/settings-daemon

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