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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    KFM 0.8
From:       Sven Radej <a9509961 () unet ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1997-06-28 18:47:02
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Problems:

NOTIFY:
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When copying dir, kiojob notifyes the newly created dir that isn't 
shown, and last recursed dir in source dir.
Precisley:
Displayed are two windows: ~ and /tmp; copy ~/Latex/  to /tmp.
He notifies ~/Latex/figures (subdir in Latex, not shown) and /tmp/Latex
(Shown is /tmp, not /tmp/Latex) => doesn't display newly created dir.
notifylists should be fixed.

Maybe there is a way to monitor shown dirs (and Desktop, Trash and
shown devices with icons on desktop) with some timer... I had before 
KFM Offix filemanager that monitored its dirs for change every 
800 ms - didn't add much to the load. This is important for non-KFM
file management (cp, rm, mv ...)

RECURSIVE DELETE 
********************
Acording to kioslave/main.cpp directories are deleted with rmdir () and 
errno==ENOEMPTY is not tested after, so it returns error, and displays 
"doesn't exist or no permission" messagebox. 


PROPS
*******
Right click on FIFO (named pipe) freezes kfm. Kfm shouldn't try to read
from such special files. Socket with 'rwx' is displayed as Executable.
Obviously, 'x' bits are examined before type bit ('s'). This is not so
important since this counts only for X sockets in /tmp/.X11-unix/ witch
are 'srwxrwxrwx' None of special files has its type written in props (Is
socket, Is character  dev ... but that's not so important)

KIOSLAVE/KIOSERVER
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Showes sometimes badly resized emty window. Sometimes at copyng/moving
folders forgets at some folders - writes down file with size 0.

Since there is no recursive deletion of dirs, I added that in kioslave.
I added another argument for mkdir, copy and del functions. This
parameter would determine whether to Recurse dir, to overwrite 
existing files etc. 

It should work like this (for file:/): You try to delete nonempty dir.
kioslave sends fatal error (with errno=ENOTEMPTY). Kiojob 
promts you wether to recurse directory, and calls again delete with
recurse argument set. The same is for deleting your RO files, mkdir 
when same name exists... etc.

The problem is in terribly complicated kioserver side. I belive that
all recursing should be done in kioslave (kioserver should send just
one url or list of urls - if some of these are dirs kioslave should do
the recursion). This  goes for move over different filesystems, too
(kioserver should decide that. It seems (am I wrong?) that this is not
the case right now - kioserver does some things too on file:/. Maybe
there are some transient misunderstanding between kioserver and 
Stefan's new kioslave.
I think that Kioserver side should be clean from all menagement. 
So it would be more easy to add new protocols (mailfolders, or 
whatever there is to add)

Well, this kioserver problem is in fact my problem since I can't (yet)
clue who's calling who, why and when. And all that debuging output...

        bye
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                             Sven <sven.radej@iname.com>

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