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

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

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