Re: FAM/gamin support for ROX-Filer
Ben Morrow <[email protected]>
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[I posted a reply to this through gmane; it doesn't seem to have made it to the list. Sorry if two copies arrive, and for the delay in replying.] At 12PM on 7/06/08 you (Thomas Leonard) wrote: > 2008/6/5 Ben Morrow <[email protected]>: > > For the benefit of those of us not on Linux, I've patched ROX-Filer to > > use FAM to watch for changes. This patch also increases the rescan > > timeout to 5 seconds, as I found that having a filer window rescan every > > half second (because something is continuously changing) causes it to > > start eating all the CPU. I don't know if this isn't an issue with > > dnotify for some reason, or if this should be made a config option. > > Thanks. I'm hoping to replace the dnotify system with the GIO one: That sounds sane. > Would you be interested in helping out / testing it when it's done? Yes. I don't know much about GIO or glib programming in general, but certainly I'd be happy to test the gio head from time to time and fix any portability problems. Is it currently considered stable enough to be useable, given that I don't mind occasional crashes? Ben -- "If a book is worth reading when you are six, * [email protected] it is worth reading when you are sixty." [C.S.Lewis] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php