From kfm-devel  Sun Jun 29 11:30:48 1997
From: weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:30:48 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: KFM 0.8
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=88721887600240

Hi,

I dont have much time right now. I will read your report very
carefully and answer tomorrow.

Nicee weakend and thanks

Bye
Torben


On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Sven Radej wrote:

> Problems:
> 
> NOTIFY:
> ********
> 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
> **********************
> 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
> --                               
>                              Sven <sven.radej@iname.com>
> 
>