Re: [Nautilus-list] Directory change signals?

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 9/11/00 5:23 PM, Seth Nickell at seth eazel com wrote:

>> The fam/imon package <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/> is one way to do
>> this. We want to use it for a future Nautilus, but Nautilus 1.0 is designed
>> to work without it.
> 
> Are we polling directories for additions and such? Or do live updates
> only happen when gnome-vfs changes something? (or do they happen at all
> outside the context of nautilus itself?)

For 1.0, changes are noticed only if they're done by Nautilus itself, or
when the user hits reload. There's a framework inside Nautilus for change
notification, but nothing in gnome-vfs to hook it up to.

    -- Darin