[Nautilus-list] FAM and the Refresh button

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 08:50  AM, David Emory Watson wrote:

> If FAM were to become a requirement, would there be any problems with
> removing the Reload button?

A few problems I can think of:

	1) For non-local files, for example on NFS, you might still need to 
Refresh.
	2) For non-local file systems, for example when viewing an FTP server, 
you might still need to Refresh.
	3) For views other than the file manager, you might still need to 
Refresh. These views could be updated to use FAM to notice changes, but at 
the moment the Text, Image, Music, and Web Page views don't do that.
	4) For cases where FAM gets it wrong, it might still be good to 
Refresh. Without IMON, FAM can't always get it 100% right, but this is 
less important than the other reasons above.

On the other hand, it might be nice to have the Refresh button be 
insensitive when we know there's no need to do it if we can deal with 
issue #4 above.

There might be other problems too. These are the ones I can think of off 
the cuff.

    -- Darin