[Lxde-list] Small feature request: Reload-Button (Re: [Lxde-i18n] Status Update for the File Manager)

[Klaus K. <lx...@kn...>]

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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