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Idea
#8784: File properties window should refresh every couple seconds
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Written by hunt.topher the 18 May 08 at 23:17.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I'm talking about the window that pops up when you right-click on a file or folder in Nautilus and select "Properties".
Maybe it's just me... but 90% of the time when I have the Properties window of any file open for more than a few seconds, it's because I'm watching the file/folder to note whether its size is changing. But the Properties window doesn't refresh the filesize data. Refreshing the Properties window data every couple seconds would be a very useful feature for me and it wouldn't be too difficult to implement... please consider!
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eapache wrote on the 19 May 08 at 00:30
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It refreshes for me, but only about once every ten seconds or so.
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MighMoS wrote on the 19 May 08 at 02:59
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Couldn't inotify be used for this? Then it wouldn't have to refresh every X seconds, but auto refresh whenever the file changes.
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bochecha wrote on the 19 May 08 at 21:51
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A timer for refresh is an awfully bad idea. That goes exactly at the opposite of what powertop tries to eradicate. That's totally contrary to the ideas behinf the tickless kernel.
"Timers are bad" ©
Don't know about inotofy, but +1 to make it event driven.
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PeterBocz wrote on the 20 May 08 at 11:41
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Recalculating a huge folder size every couple of seconds is not a good idea. Sometimes the calculation itself takes more than that.
There can be some differentiation, though. For example, automatically refresh single file property data, but do not refresh folder sizes. This could generate no overhead.
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