Why not just use the browser reload hotkey (F5) like every other file
manager I've tried in the last half decade.

On 11/04/11 08:25 AM, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:09:59PM +0200, Joost van der Hoff wrote:
>> How about adding a reload entry to the menubar? This adds the 
>> functionality for those who need it without cluttering the toolbar.
>>
>> 2noob2banoob.
> 
> Or a hotkey like Control-R. Just anything that could trigger a
> refresh/readdir() action.  Even just closing and reopening the directory
> tab would probably be acceptable in schools where they use homedirs on
> NFS, but pcmanfm currently seems to maintain its own directory cache and
> ignores server-side changes on NFS, until you first kill all instances,
> including the --desktop one, and then restarting pcmanfm.
> 
> Regards
> -Klaus
> 
>> 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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