Notify frameworks in Xfce and Thunar

Jérôme Guelfucci jeromeg at xfce.org
Fri Jul 10 16:34:12 CEST 2009


Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to ask about the status of Notify frameworks in Xfce and
> Thunar. I know that fam/gamin are supported in both thunar and
> xfdesktop. I also found this email[1], where I learnt that we can't
> expect direct inotify support in Xfce applications (and I'm OK with
> that). My question is: have you thought about using GIO monitoring API?
> Or is it even already supported? (I think that Xfce already depends on
> glib.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2006-May/002874.html
> 
> PS: Should I sent the same email to thunar-devel@ mailing list or is it
> OK to ask just here?
> 

Hello Pavol,

Jannis Pohlmann is currently working on a port of Thunar to GIO, and I 
think that Brian Tarricone plans to port xfdesktop to GIO.

Cheers,
Jérôme



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