[Nautilus-list] Re: FAM and the Refresh button

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 09:09  AM, David Emory Watson wrote:

> > 	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.
>
> Yep your right.  I never thought about cases 1) and 2)...  That's too
> bad, I really dislike the whole idea that the user should need to think
> about whether or not they can trust what they see...

We can detect case 2 (and case 3 for that matter). If we can detect case 1 
and case 4 too, then we can leave out or desensitize the Refresh button 
when it's not needed, which would be most of the time. It's not on the top 
of my list to do, but I'd help someone out who wanted to do it.

I must admit that I find the Refresh button in Nautilus an alien concept 
because I've used Macintosh for years, and the only Macintosh programs 
that have Refresh buttons are web browsers. But the kind of notification 
machinery needed to make that work properly over the network is not found 
in most network file systems.

    -- Darin