Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/30/06, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le vendredi 29 septembre 2006 à 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : This is a bit of misinformation. gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. But it works by polling, while fam queries the remote fam server which is notified by

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 02 octobre 2006 à 02:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : How about... a working desktop? Gamin is responsible for bugs in gnome-menus where the menu becomes empty. This doesn't happen when using gnome-vfs. Then you must be happy that gamin is now using the exact same inotify

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 29 septembre 2006 à 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : This is a bit of misinformation. gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. But it works by polling, while fam queries the remote fam server which is notified by

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @ http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies. What am I missing? I'm not sure

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 02 octobre 2006 à 12:17 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: But it works by polling, while fam queries the remote fam server which is notified by dnotify. Are you actually aware of any systems that have set up fam on the

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-10-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/2/06, Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 29 septembre 2006 à 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : This is a bit of misinformation. gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. But it works by polling, while fam queries the remote fam server which is notified by dnotify. Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its

fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @ http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies. What am I missing? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @ http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies. What am I missing? Doesn't look

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-09-29 klockan 11:45 skrev Jan de Groot: One exception is gnome-menus, which needs fam/gamin to monitor files. Most distributions have patched up that thing to use either inotify or gnome-vfs, so IMHO the dependency isn't right on that page and should list a choice between fam or gamin,

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/29/06, Jan de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file monitoring. And besides, gnome-vfs and gamin use identical

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Jamie McCracken
Matthias Clasen wrote: On 9/29/06, Jan de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:59 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file