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Originally Posted by Diph View Post
What does the hildon-desktop theme option do?

hildon-desktop -theme theme : Load the specified theme
The same as personalization app?
 
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the fact that it behaves the way you describe it with any theme change is good clue that what you search simple doesn't exist. at least nobody seems to bother if so.

not only qtapps stay alive but with every theme change a part of the old theme stays. guess that rules out a qt problem. as it seems to be generic.
well if you find something you might want to tell the themes maintainers about it. would be a great improvement to change themes without rebooting.

otherwise the issue looks quite familiar to me.
what i have to offer you concerning this is:
a) processgroups
b) lsof, fuser and the like

yes, busybox is crappy. you will want some working tools if you are looking into this...
as a sidenote you might get into real fun if you look closer at it.

Originally Posted by d-iivil View Post
I don't want to replicate the behaviour, but it would indeed be nice to know how the personalisation_app is doing the things.

I already tried scanning the DBus and there's no (extra) activity there.

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Originally Posted by Diph View Post
What does the hildon-desktop theme option do?

hildon-desktop -theme theme : Load the specified theme
Doesn't seem to do anything. The command can't be entered while hildon-desktop is running, and shutting down it first brings us back to original problem (Qt apps won't survive the hildon-home restart if they are running). Even after I've shut down the hildon-home with dsmetool and then bring it back to life with -theme argument, nothing is changed. I've tried to offer it these:
-theme name_of_the_theme
-theme /path/to/the/theme
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Hi D-Iivil,
why do you think the personalisation_app can do something that
your app cannot?
I mean, if you do
Originally Posted by d-iivil View Post
At least for me the following behaviour is reproducable:
- open some Qt application which has at least one QComboBox or some menus on top bar to tap to
- run "killall hildon-desktop" or "dsmetool -k /usr/bin/hildon-desktop; dsmetool -t -U user /usr/bin/hildon-desktop"
- change theme with hildon buildin theme chooser
is the behavior differently?

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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
Hi D-Iivil,
why do you think the personalisation_app can do something that
your app cannot?
I mean, if you do


is the behavior differently?

Nicolai
I find it too much trouble for the user if he needs to go swap themes back and forth just to be able to see his new icons...

There_must_be_a_way to clear those caches and silently reload hildon-desktop without opening the personalisation_app.

Edit: didn't catch your actual question. Yes, the outcome is different. Qt apps (or any other) won't freak out when using personalisation_app.
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Why not just reapply the theme? personalisation_app also comes with a command line counterpart. Otherwise, just read the source of any GTK+ theme switching app: Considering you're dealing with windows, it's unlikely D-Bus will play a part, look at X's Atoms, Properties and stuff. Perhaps http://code.google.com/p/gtk-theme-s...rc/utils.c#160 may be enough
 

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Why not just reapply the theme? personalisation_app also comes with a command line counterpart. Otherwise, just read the source of any GTK+ theme switching app: Considering you're dealing with windows, it's unlikely D-Bus will play a part, look at X's Atoms, Properties and stuff. Perhaps http://code.google.com/p/gtk-theme-s...rc/utils.c#160 may be enough
I'd be very very intrested in those personalisation_app's command line options. Do you have more info about those? I've tried to offer it many kinds of switches with no response at all (well, best I've got is segfault :P).

Edit: forgot to mention that I've already tried to compile some standard gtk-theme-switchers with success, but unfortunately none of those will actually change anything. I guess it needs some hildon specific stuff which I don't have a glue
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Originally Posted by d-iivil View Post
I'd be very very intrested in those personalisation_app's command line options. Do you have more info about those? I've tried to offer it many kinds of switches with no response at all (well, best I've got is segfault :P).

Edit: forgot to mention that I've already tried to compile some standard gtk-theme-switchers with success, but unfortunately none of those will actually change anything. I guess it needs some hildon specific stuff which I don't have a glue
Have you tried matchbox-remote?
For example
/usr/bin/personalisation /usr/share/themes/beta
/usr/bin/matchbox-remote -t beta

switches to the theme "beta".

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It's also problematic with DrLaunch:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=198
 
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Originally Posted by d-iivil View Post
Do you have more info about those?
Hi,

I've come back to this after a while, sorry for abandoning the thread!

I've only tested this in Scratchbox (strace etc. on personalisation_app worked wonders ), but hopefully, it should work for refreshing the theme. If it doesn't work, you may have to switch to another theme because the underlying components realise that you're reapplying the same theme; if that's the case, I don't know what to do

PHP Code:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libgen.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <gdk/gdkx.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

struct _theme_info
{
    
gchar *base_path;
    
gchar *theme_name;
};

static 
gboolean current_theme_info (struct _theme_info *theme_info)
{
    
#define THEME_DIR "/etc/hildon/theme"
    #define INDEX_THEME_FILE G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "index.theme"
    #define STD_INDEX_LOC THEME_DIR INDEX_THEME_FILE

    
gboolean retval FALSE;
    
gchar *linkdest1 NULL, *linkdest2 NULL;
    
GKeyFile *theme_key g_key_file_new();

    if ((!
g_file_test (STD_INDEX_LOCG_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) || (!g_key_file_load_from_file (theme_keySTD_INDEX_LOCG_KEY_FILE_NONENULL)) || !(theme_info->theme_name g_key_file_get_string (theme_key"Desktop Entry""Name"NULL)))
        goto 
getout;

    
linkdest1 g_file_read_link (THEME_DIRNULL);
    if (!
linkdest1) goto getout;

    
linkdest2 g_file_read_link (linkdest1NULL); /* Is it a folder that's symlinked to another, like: default->alpha? */
    
theme_info->base_path g_path_get_basename (linkdest2 linkdest2 linkdest1);

    
retval theme_info->base_path != NULL;

getout:
    
g_free (linkdest2);
    
g_free (linkdest1);
    
g_key_file_free (theme_key);

    return 
retval;

#undef STD_INDEX_LOC
#undef INDEX_THEME_FILE
#undef THEME_DIR
}

static 
gboolean update_symbolic_link (const gchar *newtheme)
{
    
gboolean retval FALSE;

    if (
newtheme)
    {
        
gint exit_status;
        
gchar *cmdline;

        
cmdline g_strdup_printf ("%s %s/%s""/usr/bin/personalisation""/usr/share/themes"newtheme);
        
retval g_spawn_command_line_sync (cmdlineNULLNULL, &exit_statusNULL) || exit_status != 0;
        
g_free (cmdline);
    }
    
    return 
retval;
}

static 
void send_refresh_signal (void)
{
    
GdkEventClient event;

    
event.type GDK_CLIENT_EVENT;
    
event.send_event TRUE;
    
event.window NULL;
    
event.message_type gdk_atom_intern ("_GTK_READ_RCFILES"FALSE);
    
event.data_format 8;

    
gdk_event_send_clientmessage_toall ((GdkEvent *) &event);
}

static 
void refresh_matchbox (const gchar *base_path)
{
    
Display *disp XOpenDisplay (getenv ("DISPLAY"));
    
Atom _MB_THEME XInternAtom (disp"_MB_THEME"False);

    if (
_MB_THEME != None)
    {
        
Window root DefaultRootWindow(disp);
        
XChangeProperty (disproot_MB_THEMEXA_STRING8PropModeReplace, (unsigned char*) base_pathstrlen (base_path));

        
Atom _MB_COMMAND XInternAtom (disp"_MB_COMMAND"False);
        if (
_MB_COMMAND != None)
        {
            
XEvent ev = { '\0', };

            
ev.xclient.type ClientMessage;
            
ev.xclient.window root;
            
ev.xclient.message_type _MB_COMMAND;
            
ev.xclient.format 8;
            
ev.xclient.data.l[0] = 1;
            
            
XSendEvent(disprootFalseSubstructureRedirectMask|SubstructureNotifyMask, &ev);
        }
        
        
XSync (dispTrue);
    }
    
    
XCloseDisplay (disp);
}

int main (int argcchar *argv[])
{
    
struct _theme_info theme_info;
    
gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
    
    
g_assert (current_theme_info(&theme_info));

    if (!
update_symbolic_link (theme_info.base_path))
        return 
1/* Fails in my SB - "invalid cross-device link */

    
GtkSettings *settings gtk_settings_get_default();
    
gtk_settings_set_string_property (settings"gtk-theme-name"theme_info.theme_namebasename(argv[0]));
    
//g_object_notify (G_OBJECT (settings), "gtk-theme-name");
    
gtk_rc_reset_styles (settings);

    
send_refresh_signal();

    
gchar *maemo_launcher_pid_s;
    if (
g_file_get_contents ("/tmp/maemo-launcher.pid", &maemo_launcher_pid_sNULLNULL))
    {
        
pid_t maemo_launcher_pid = (pid_tatoi (maemo_launcher_pid_s);
        if (
maemo_launcher_pid 0kill (maemo_launcher_pidSIGHUP);
        
g_free (maemo_launcher_pid_s);
    }
    
    
refresh_matchbox (theme_info.base_path);

    
g_free (theme_info.base_path);
    
g_free (theme_info.theme_name);

    return 
0;

Just using gtk+-2.0 for pkg-config works to compile it

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