[Thunar-dev] thunar icons, and make-thunarx-alias.pl errors

[Benedikt Meurer]

Yo'av Moshe wrote:
> Well, it's a bit better now! Thanks.
> 
> Here's what I've done:
> 1. Started Thunar.
> 2. Put a CD inside.
> 3. Nothing happend. Mounted it.
> 4. Nothing happend. Started Thunar again.
> 5. CD was shown, with it's label as a name. Worked nicely. Eject
> didn't work, but probably because of my system settings.
> 6. Unmounted the CD. It will still there.
> 7. Restarted Thunar, it was still there.
> 8. Took the CD out.
> 9. Restarted Thunar, it was still there. Couldn't mount it, of course,
> but it was shown with the old label.
> 10. Put another CD, nothing happend.
> 11. Restarted Thunar. The old label was still there. Clicking it
> mounted the new CD, but kept the old label.
> 
> How does this work on FreeBSD? Does it update on-the-fly? Does it use
> the current CD label?

The screenshot wasn't FreeBSD, but HAL on Linux. On FreeBSD it updates
on the fly, like it does with Linux/HAL. But on Linux/HAL, Thunar relies
on the HAL daemon to provide notification about the changes. Can you try
with hal-device-manager and see if HAL actually notices the changes?

> However, thanks for making it work. It's so nice to use an SVN version.
> Yo'av.

Benedikt