KDirWatch emitting dirty signal many times for one change

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 14:11, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:59, David Faure wrote:
> > > Couldn't KDirWatch compress the notifications into one signal?
> >
> > I thought it already did?
> 
> Look at the test program I attached to my first email. I get 271 notifications
> with it.

I know, I was simply referring to an earlier discussion about this problem.
But I found the answer: the delaying is done in KDirLister, not in KDirWatch
(see KDirListerCache::slotFileDirtyDelayed). Not sure why.
I would seem like a good idea to do the delaying in KDirWatch...

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