config option for KDirWatch method

[Jos van den Oever]

2007/8/6, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 06.08.07 13:33:07, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > >On 06.08.07 10:45:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > >>Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > >>>+  KConfig config("kdeglobals");
> > >>Any reason you do not use KGlobal::config()?
> > >Well, I understood that as if KGlobal::config() would return me
> > >kdeveloprc when used in kdevelop and katerc when used in kate.
> >
> > Right, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you get the
> > system-wide settings unless the app has overridden them (which I would further
> > suggest is The Right Thing To Do anyway). At least, I really hope that's the
> > way it works, or else all of KGlobalSettings is horribly broken :-).
>
> Right, I never questioned that. However having different monitoring
> methods for each app doesn't make that much sense IMHO.
>
> OTOH KDirWatcher already does use that for the polling interval, so in
> theory you could have different polling intervals for each app.

Do we leave room for later on switching to central daemon for get file
change notifications? Inotify has a limit on the number of directories
it can watch and is generally inefficient. This means that when many
apps watch the filesystem for changes, this will become expensive.
Also polling is expensive and you would like to have 1 pollinground
for all apps. Strigi will e.g. be watching many if not all files in
someones home directory. A dbus daemon sending signals might be a
solution here.

I'm not suggesting to write such a daemon now. But having the option
to have one makes a lot of sense.

Cheers,
Jos