Re: Real time icon info... what happened to it?

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 21:02, Ben Davis wrote:
> Hi everyone.  A while back I installed gnome 2.2 on my RedHat system, 
> and I noticed what I thought was the coolest feature.  When I was 
> copying or downloading a file to the desktop or another folder, The icon 
> info (info displayed below the icons) showed the filesize in real time, 
> ie, It could see the size rapidly increasing as I was copying it.
> 
> I just installed gentoo w/ gnome 2.2 and now this feature seems to be 
> gone! Is there a setting somewhere? Has this been removed on purpose?

This is accomplished with the file monitoring features of gnome-vfs, so
you need FAM installed when you compile gnome-vfs to enable this.

Thanks,
James