sereneblue/gnome-shell-extension-colosseum

Some settings are only reflected on next update

terminalmage opened this issue · 3 comments

terminalmage commented

Changes to a couple of the config settings (compact-mode and followed-only) do not take effect until the next update interval. With the default update interval being 5 minutes, this means that you can switch these options and not see the changes for up to 5 minutes. This is confusing when compared with position-in-topbar, for which changes take effect immediately.

Is this a limitation of gnome-shell? I'm still new to gnome-shell (until a few weeks ago I hadn't used GNOME since before GNOME 3), but do extensions not have a way of detecting gsettings changes as they happen?

sereneblue commented

Hi @terminalmage,

No, this isn't a limitation of gnome-shell. I'll review and update this for the next version.

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terminalmage commented

From a surface-level look at the code, this appears to be because the contents of the GridLayout are torn down and replaced every time the interval expires. It ends up getting the new configuration when it rebuilds the grid.

sereneblue commented

This is resolved in the next update.

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