Watch directories for changes

[Adam Olsen]

exaile might or might not use inotify, I don't know.
At least, it doesn't work for me. Adding files to the watched folders don't appear in exaile until i manually say refresh my collection. Woulod be nice if that was possible with a plugin or internally (it used to include gamin support, right?)

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #714

[Adam Olsen (arolsen)]

We tried using gamin for a while, but it didn't work right. Don't know what to do here.

[Adam Olsen (arolsen)]

This is currently somewhat implemented in 0.3. There's just no GUI to modify the values for it.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

What is lacking exactly for the inotify support ? Can you offer mentorship on it, or describe what needs to be implemented ? I'd like to propose this bug in the bug day.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

Inotify is implemented in trunk, but its not very well tested and is thus not exposed to users. We should aim to get it ready for 0.3.1.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

note to implementors: gio.FileMonitor is probably a better way to go than pyinotify, since it'll work cross-platform and integrate with our migration to gio better.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

deferring to 0.3.2

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Note: gio.FileMonitor unfortunately only watches that very directory only. It does not work recursively.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Basic monitoring has been added with r3200. It allows for detection of creation and deletion of files and directories in the root directory of libraries. Changes in subdirectories are not monitored, as well as tag changes.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Fixed with r3381, now directories are watched recursively. External changes to files are not monitored to keep performance up.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

As of r3570 library monitoring is exposed visually through the collection manager.