recent xffm changes

[edscott wilson garcia]

El jue, 13-02-2003 a las 12:59, Olivier Fourdan escribió:
> Why do we need a monitor after all ?
> 
> When copying /moving/removing/renaming a file, we know that the status
> has changed. For all other cases, a reload button would suffice. 
> 

It's just to keep track of changes made to the filesystem by other
processes (other fm's, editors, whatever).

> That would make things much simpler and lighter on CPU.

You're absolutely right. That's why the monitor is a option in the
preferences. Once you turn it off it won't come back on. Maybe the
default should be off (today I think yes and tomorrow no:-\) 

Edscott

> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:35, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > El jue, 13-02-2003 a las 10:25, Jens Luedicke escribió:
> > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:29, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > 
> > > > DONE: trash needs to load like other dir (expand only after loaded)
> > > > DONE: needs "disable monitor" in options
> > > > DONE: needs hide wastebaskets 
> > > 
> > > The Wastebasket is shown again after the file monitor
> > > reloaded the current dir. 
> > 
> > Fixed in cvs.
> > 
> > > 
> > > If I'm not totally wrong, the file monitor (and its timeouts)
> > > causes another GUI issue: The menubar item-titles become 'white'
> > > after a short time when you browse/select its menu items.
> > 
> > I was wondering what was causing that... In order to fix it we need to
> > be able to know when the menu is open (so we can tell the monitor to
> > hold still). Anybody know how to test if a main menus is open?
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Jens Luedicke <jens at irs-net.com>
> > > 
> > > "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with
> > > substance."
> > > --Sam Brown
> > > 
> > > 
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