Re: Unexplained caching/journaling action...
A GPG key.
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 09:55 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:40:08 +0100 Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:44:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:19:21 +0100 Rastko <lylecorman@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > and welcome me to the group :P
> > >
> > > You are welcome, I guess.
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > Are you *that* sour on Mondays?
>
> Yep.
>
> Anyway:
>
> > The title might be misleading, but I'm experiencing weird behavior
> > using GNOME3 desktop under Debian 3.16.0-amd64, in that some disk
> > operations and things like generating keys, have delayed feedback,
> > for example, I create a key, Documents collection, and such, and
> > nothing happens, until a couple of minutes later, by which time I've
> > tried several times, and it turns out every time I succeeded. But
> > there was no feedback.
>
> > I create a key, Documents collection
>
> 'Create a key'- this could mean anything. An RSA key? A GPG key? An SSH
> key? What? I also don't see why GNOME should interfere with things that
> are essentially command-line operations such as that. Is this some
> strange GNOME auto-keygen thing?
>
A GPG key, but that's irrelevant. It's a cross-application behavior
manifested in GUI feedback.
> 'Documents collection' - does this mean he has navigated to the
> Documents folder in Nautilus? Does it mean he has opened the Evince
> document viewer?
>
There is a "Documents" application with an integrated PDF viewer, in
which you are able to define "Collections". But that's just an example.
> > no feedback
> Where? Via notifications? I wouldn't expect SSH keygen/GPG
> keygen/whatever to generate GNOME 3 notifications.
>
> Forgive my confusion- but I am quite confused.
>
It's the program GUI I am speaking of, not a notification daemon. F.
ex., the list of keys doesn't get updated. The list of "Collections"
doesn't get updated immediately.
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