On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 22:24 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote: > The use case I am trying to solve is when nautilus is viewing a directory > which is a > symlink to A, and then becomes symlinked to B. Nautilus doesn't > realize it isn't viewing the correct directory anymore so I need a way > to tell it to re-visit the same address to get to the new location. > This comes up often when working with encrypted directories or > partitions which are often layered filesystems dealt with through > symlinks. So if I want to have a nautilus extension to encrypt or > decrypt the directory, this is going to involve a symlink swap and > require a refresh. Does that seem fair enough? Currently I am blocked > on this extension without a way to make it usable as it requires > manually hitting F5 each time.
There has been some work done on symlink monitoring but eventually we found out it is too expensive and never committed the code upstream. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536172 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546954 -- Tomas Bzatek <tbza...@redhat.com> -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
