update vs rescan?

[Jocke Andersson]

On Thursday December 14 2006 22:50, Andrew Turner wrote:
> A quick explanation:
>
> The collection scanner has two modes of operation:
> Full scan ("Rescan Collection") - it looks at every file in the
> Collection Folders specified;
> Incremental Update ("Update Collection") - it only examines new
> directories or directories with a newer mtime than last time it
> scanned.
>
> There are times where "Update Collection" isn't enough. For example, I
> find that if I use Azureus to download music into a folder in one of
> my Collection Folders, the mtimes of none of the directories are
> updated when the files are complete (so Amarok never bothers to scan
> the completed files). Another situation could be if Amarok just gets
> confused (it can happen).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Andrew

I'm aware about the differences, but the current names are confusing. It's an 
improvement to earlier versions where only rescan was available in the 
menu. :)

Anyway, it would be better to make the faster update choice easier to reach, 
if you don't want to move the rescan option to the config dialog, put an 
update button in the collection browser or something similar?
A better fitting name for rescan might be "Full collection rescan" (emphasize 
on the "Full" part, since it can take a lot longer to finish than "update").

//firetech