jigpu/gnome-settings-daemon — comment on commit 924dc12bb6fa44cecde37de35a081329d512b8a8
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By jigpu:

Its possible, but I think you'd need to add a field to PropertyHelper which contains the desired type atom (e.g. XA_INTEGER). That implies updating a lot of call sites, which I'm hesitant to do. This patch is just here to let me work on other things while I ponder about other possibilities.