Thread: [Announce] Conky Layout Switcher
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2011-06-01 , 11:35
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#57
Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness View Post
Can you add a layout option for this one?
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=119
I don't want to make it the default in Conky because it is a bit slow, but it's still pretty awesome.
No, sorry. I can't.
This is not the way ConkyLayoutSwitcher works. It doesn't "switch" the config file. It's a single, big and heavy file that checks what to show depending of my code. And I would say this config wouldn't fit in the concept.

Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness View Post
When I have some time I'll see if we can get Conky to reload the .conf file when we swap it out without restarting it or anything.
Yes, because of this fact I needed a different solution.
If you trying to make this possible, don't forget to keep the diagramm data from the old config for the new layout.
And my work ended very often with a screwed up Conky process because I replaced the config with a new one while Conky was running. Only a kill -9 avoided a battery drain within 4 hours in such a case.

I thought after the last weeks often about writing my own Conky without the possibility for user created config files but on the other hand with a proper maemo/MeeGo styled UI... with scrollbars and options.
But I'm not sure if this is all the effort worth...
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