Data retention reminder on live CD

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at canonical.com
Mon Mar 10 14:06:52 GMT 2008


* Loïc Minier 

| On Mon, Mar 10, 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > At the risk of introducing too much complexity: we could do this as a
| > fuse filesystem which would pop up notification bubbles whenever you
| > saved something to ~ (and which didn't match an «ignored files»
| > pattern).
| > This would have the advantage of being completely desktop-agnostic and
| > work for non-GTK, non-Qt applications as well.
| 
|  That's a nice idea!  I wonder whether an inotify watch of $HOME would
|  be simpler to write/maintain, but I think it's nice to have some
|  filesystem-level solution as you propose.

That sounds like a better approach than futzing with FUSE, yes.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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