Hi.
I am working on kiosktool and I want button 'Preview' as it was in KDE3.
Right now I want to preview KDE Style settings. When I press 'Preview' button I set up evnironment variables so that the KDEDIRS etc. points to the profile's directory tree. Now I want all running applications to redraw it's content according to settings in kdeglobals in profile's directory tree (pretty the same thing, that is done, when you are editting style settings via systemsettings and click apply).

I looked into code of style kcmodule and there is used this:

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KGlobalSettings::emitChange(KGlobalSettings::StyleChanged);

But in KDE api is written, that this method should be used only in kcmodules and no in normal KDE app.
I also tried this method and it done nothing.

This is possibly because the applications themselves have their own KDEDIRS, KDEHOME, etc. settings, therefore they will reload from there rather than your own customised settings when you send that signal.