Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Tracking file system changes made out of it.

[David Bishop <david bishop dhs org>]

As someone who uses efm on a daily basis, I would *highly* recommend the fam/
imon combination.  They are both easy to install, rock solid, and speed 
things up *tremendously*, as well as providing real-time updates in a gui 
file manager, a holy-grail of sorts :-)  Just thought I'd put a plug in. 

>on 8/21/00 3:47 PM, Hayden James at hjames stevens-tech edu wrote:

>> I don't know if this is in your design plans are not, but it would be a
>> cool feature if I was to delete, change, or add a file from another
>> program outside nautilus (like a shell) that nautilus would see these
>> changes without it having to be refreshed (with the refresh button).  EFM
>> (Enlightenment File Manager) has this feature and I believe they use this
>> library from SGI called fam and a kernel patch called imon.  Fam is
>> released under the LGPL and imon on the GPL.  Information for both can be
>> found here http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/.  That is one solution to the
>> problem, maybe you have a better one.

>We are aware of the fam/imon package. We aren't going to use it for Nautilus
>1.0, but we are considering it for a future version. The entry in our bug
>database about this is <http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779>.

>    -- Darin



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