[Thunar-dev] Thunar, dbus and hal devices

[Benedikt Meurer]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Moritz Heiber <moe at xfce.org> [2006-09-26 14:32]:
>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:22:02 +0200
>> Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW: It would be nice if Thunar would support halmount.
>> Whats halmount?
> 
> It's part of ivman. It's the program SUSE recommends to mount from
> commandline. SUSE has no pmount package.
> 
> Currently, mounting from Thunar doesn't work on SUSE. 
> @Benny: How to KDE/GNOME mount? They send D-BUS messages directly,
> don't they?

GNOME uses gnome-mount, which Thunar also supports. Unfortunately
gnome-mount doesn't work reliably, or not at all (i.e. for floppies, it
failes without any notice). I guess I'll have to add a custom wrapper
around the HAL commands.

>        Bernhard

Benedikt