Re: Nautilus Refresh

[Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 22:24 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote:
> The use case I am trying to solve is when nautilus is viewing a directory which is a
> symlink to A, and then becomes symlinked to B. Nautilus doesn't
> realize it isn't viewing the correct directory anymore so I need a way
> to tell it to re-visit the same address to get to the new location.
> This comes up often when working with encrypted directories or
> partitions which are often layered filesystems dealt with through
> symlinks. So if I want to have a nautilus extension to encrypt or
> decrypt the directory, this is going to involve a symlink swap and
> require a refresh. Does that seem fair enough? Currently I am blocked
> on this extension without a way to make it usable as it requires
> manually hitting F5 each time.

There has been some work done on symlink monitoring but eventually we
found out it is too expensive and never committed the code upstream.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536172
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546954

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Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com>