On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Jan de Groot<jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 16:14 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote:
Every normal file manager should use inotify by itself and not depend on fam/gamin for that. What fam adds is the ability to monitor remote file systems IIRC, gamin does not add anything (of course it adds the basic functionality to file managers which don't have inotify support).
so -1 from me
inotify doesn't work over NFS/SMB, so that's where gamin comes in place. Note that GIO, the framework used by GNOME, doesn't support fam/gamin on archlinux, because I didn't want to create a dependency loop in case of gamin, and didn't want to pull fam into core either.
gosh, I really missed some developments there. Now that gamin does support remote filesystems I'm fine with replacing fam by gamin. Ronald