Re: desktop-devel-list digest, Vol 1 #1510 - 3 msgs

[linas linas org (Linas Vepstas)]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:00:16PM -0400, desktop-devel-list-request gnome org was heard to remark:
> 
> Subject: Re: reading "Disks" without logging off
> 
> Bleah.  We need a system that figures out changes in the system.  Once we
> get a good system message bus we can have nautilus watch for such events so
> that it can reload automagically without all these silly tricks.  
> 
> I think it's obvious that nobody should be doing these sort of things to get
> an active view of their resources.
> 

Well, there's FAM 'file alteration monitor' which works OK for this
purpose.  This should cover 80% of the cases.

I don't know of any sort of generic event-subscription daemon, though.
It would be nice (I've needed this for multi-user gnucash) to have 
a daemon that will re-distribute events generated by apps.

--linas


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