fam

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 22:51 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:04 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > > How important is fam to GNOME.  Should we add a commented out entry to
> > > inetd.conf?  Any comment on PR: conf/74004?
> > 
> > I'll say it's critical to a user-friendly GNOME installation.  Without
> > FAM, you will need to restart gnome-panel each time you install new
> > software, the GTK+ file chooser doesn't update dynamically nor does
> > Nautilus (or anything related to the file system).  I can't imagine
> > actually using a GNOME installation without FAM.
> 
> Heh.  Well, I did for several months, up until about an hour ago.
> Amazing how much better Nautilus works now.  :-)
> 
> So where should I have looked for this information?

devel/fam's pkg-message unfortunately.

> (ports/devel/fam/pkg-message didn't do me any good...it scrolled off the
> screen when I originally installed GNOME from the meta-port.)

Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) FAQ.
However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, we
dropped it.  I think it would be worth adding back in as its own FAQ,
but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the
information.

Joe 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce.
> 
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