tightening requirements... sorta

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:12:06 -0700
schrieb "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I just noticed in #xfce yet another millionth person asked about why
> they have to press F5 to refresh their desktop every time they create
> or delete a file on the desktop.  Of course, the answer is always the
> same, and I'm getting tired of these repetitive questions.
> 
> Clearly, FAQing things like this doesn't work.  People just don't
> read.  Period.
> 
> So, I'd like to propose making gamin/FAM a "soft required" dependency
> for Thunar.  This really just amounts to a configure script change.
> If you just run configure with no arguments, and gamin/FAM isn't
> present, then the configure script errors out, with a message telling
> you to install it, or if you *really* don't want it, to pass
> --disable-change-notification to configure, in which case it'll let
> you compile without gamin/FAM.
> 
> What do people think?  There may be other places we can do this (like
> maybe with xfdesktop's file icon support) to reduce time spent
> answering stupid questions.

I'd say go for it. The FAM/gamin stuff is so essential to the user
experience of Thunar and xfdesktop that we should strongly advocate the
enabling it anyway.

  - Jannis
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