[XFCE 0000010]: Panel should notice when available applets change

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000010
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Reporter:                   kinnison
Handler:                    huysmans
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000010
Category:                   panel
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2003-11-17 09:59 GMT
Last Modified:              2003-11-17 10:12 GMT
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Summary:                    Panel should notice when available applets change
Description: 
In distributions like Debian, people are likely to install new panel
applets and remove panel applets previously installed. This is quite
likely to occur while the panel is running. At least periodically, and
perhaps every time the menu is opened, the panel ought to scan the plugins
directory and update its internal list of available plugins.
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 huysmans - 2003-11-17 10:09 GMT 
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I'm not sure it is worth the effort. I will be trying to implement loading
on demand / unloading when no longer used, so perhaps I can incorporate
this idea.

However, installing / uninstalling plugins is not part of the normal
operation, so I don't think it is wrong to require a little user
intervention here. The panel will get a 'Restart' menu option, that will
update the plugins and configuration.

Until that time, just use 'pkill -USR1 xfce4-panel' to restart the panel.

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 kinnison - 2003-11-17 10:12 GMT 
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A 'reload' or 'rescan' or 'restart' would do the trick. People are used to
the menus auto-updating from things like gnome. Once the session manager
is in place so that if you kill the panel you get a new one launched
automatically we'll be somewhere safer with respect to not noticing
changes until the panel is restarted.

On demand loading/unloading sounds good, and I think you could incorporate
scanning the plugin dir on demand as part of it quite sensibly.