How about adding a reload entry to the menubar? This adds the 
functionality for those who need it without cluttering the toolbar.

2noob2banoob.

On 08/04/11 20:11, PCMan wrote:
> Actually I have this in my internal core libfm API, but supporting
> this needs some changes to the GUI. The problem with the UI is, there
> are already too many buttons.
> So I'm still thinking about how to make it cleaner while adding more features.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Klaus Knopper<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a small feature request, if there is still time for it, it should
>> be rather easy to implement.
>>
>> pcmanfm does not readdir() a directory again if there is no change
>> notification event. This is usually OK and effective, but in case you
>> change a file directly on a NFS server, the NFS client will not see the
>> change in PCManfm, and even leaving and re-entering the directory won't
>> make pcmanfm show the changes.
>>
>> Rather than changing pcmanfms behaviour in general, I request a "Reload"
>> button that enforces re-reading the currently displayed directory,
>> discarding the internal cache first.
>>
>> Regards
>> -Klaus
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 05:34:38PM +0800, PCMan wrote:
>>> OK, it’s time to tell the world what we’re doing to the file manager
>>> Here is a status report for PCManFM.
>>>
>>> Several bugs are fixed, and others are not. I’m currently working on
>>> fixing them.
>>> 1.Directory tree will be available from side pane again in next
>>> release. I have finished 50% of the feature and hope that I can make
>>> it in the following weeks
>>> 2.Tabs now takes less space when showing filenames that are too long.
>>> 3.The location bar is re-written. Now auto-completion for directory
>>> paths works more correctly.
>>> 4.I have implemented a simple button-style path bar recently, but to
>>> add it to PCManFM, some changes to the UI are needed so this might not
>>> be available yet in the next release.
>>> 5.Integration with lxshortcut is planned. So you can create new
>>> application shortcut on the desktop easier, but this is not yet
>>> implemented.
>>> 6.Status messages are now more correct and human readable.
>>> 7.Some code cleanup was done to make the source code more readable to
>>> future contributors.
>>> 8. While fixing bugs of PCManFM, I found a severe bug in udisks
>>> regarding to CD-ROM polling. This bug leaves the filesystem on CD-ROM
>>> mounted even after the media has been removed via pressing physical
>>> eject button on the device. I made a patch for it, but upstream
>>> authors did not accept the patch. They came up with a new solution
>>> utilizing the latest in-kernel polling provided by Linux kernel and
>>> did some fixes themselves. So in the near future, this bug will be
>>> resolved anyways.
>>>
>>> So these are basically what I’m doing on the file manager recently.
>>> Please help if you can. Thanks a lot.
>>>
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