wine menus

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On 6/22/07, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Frank Richter <frank.richter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another idea: let wine's explorer monitor the start menu directory and
> > let it update the fd.o menu as soon as it detects a change. This way
> > changes to the start menu folder are instant, at least while explorer runs.

Thank you for that idea Frank, I was wondering how to detect changes.

> Alexandre: do you have any recommendations about this? Should explorer
> poll periodically and be in charge of keeping the lnk's in sync with
> the fd.o?

With FindFirstChangeNotification() and FindNextChangeNotification()
you don't even have to poll, and those are implemented on wineserver
using inotify, so it's very efficient.

> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

I'm already working on it :-)
Damjan