[Sugar-devel] Control Panel

[David Farning]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM,  <usr at dev.seeta.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was working on making some changes in sugar control panel in Ubuntu
> ,such that it should not require any restart even when very small change
> is made. So, can you tell me and help me out to figure that what changes
> are small enough so that they should not require changes.I will Try to
> make changes accordingly.
> On my findings,
> 1. my xo
> 2. date and time
> 3.frames
> 4.languages
> 5.modem configuration
>
> in the above options i am not able to make changes without restart.the
> rest options are working fine without restart.
> when we click on restart it doesnt restart sugar either.
>
> Few pointers would be helpful and I would really appreciate your support
> in this direction.
>
> Regards,
> Ankur Khurana.
> Research Engineer,SEETA
> http://seeta.in/

I would suggest starting with the date time configurating.
1.  Look at the code how date/time are handles in the Sugar control panel.
2.  Look at the code for gnome clock handles updating the date and
time without a restart.
3.  Apply what you learned in step two to step one.

david