Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [PATCH]: avoid directory reloading when not needed.

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

On 14 Jun 2001 14:49:32 -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 02:13  PM, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> If someone types a new location into an existing window, I don't think the 
> behavior should be any different from opening a new window. In either case,
>   if the new location happens to be cached, we need to do a new load and 
> not rely on old cached data unless we have synchronization like FAM.

I strongly agree.  I can't imagine any circumstances under which the
user would prefer to see the old contents of the directory.  IMHO, until
FAM is a requirement, we should not allow Nautilus to "lie" to the user.

> A particularly bad case of this has to do with going up from your home 
> directory, I seem to recall. There were cases where new files just didn't 
> show up without a refresh. We can dig around the bug database to find this 
> specific awful case. I'm pretty sure this change reintroduces the bug.

Maybe we should confirm that this patch does introduce the unwanted
behavior?  According to an email which Yoann just posted a moment ago,
the bug has yet to be observed...  Does anyone else care to test it?