Re: Is there some shape repository for dia ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Tue, Aug 06, 2002, à 03:19:22PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
> 
>> > Why not "watching" the shape repository and load newcomers dynamically
>> > ?  WindowMaker can watch the changes in its config file. Why not Dia
>> > watching for changes in its shape directory.
>> 
>> I suppose it could do that.  But then we have a synchronization problem
>> -- we wouldn't want to load half-way written files.
> 
> we avoid files in .shape.dpkg-new, then. We can try games like
> lsof(1)'ing the file (unless we need root), etc.
> 
> (and the equivalent for RPM).

I don't like the idea of hacking around individual package management
systems.  I'd rather have a menu item 'Reload shapes' or something.

-Lars

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