On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Jan de Groot<j...@jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 16:14 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> Every normal file manager should use inotify by itself and not depend >> on fam/gamin for that. What fam adds is the ability to monitor remote >> file systems IIRC, gamin does not add anything (of course it adds the >> basic functionality to file managers which don't have inotify >> support). >> >> so -1 from me > > inotify doesn't work over NFS/SMB, so that's where gamin comes in place. > Note that GIO, the framework used by GNOME, doesn't support fam/gamin on > archlinux, because I didn't want to create a dependency loop in case of > gamin, and didn't want to pull fam into core either. > >
gosh, I really missed some developments there. Now that gamin does support remote filesystems I'm fine with replacing fam by gamin. Ronald