[Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

[Benedikt Meurer]

Biju Chacko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just been trying out Thunar volume management. It seems a little flaky.
> 
> 1. It only seems to recognise USB storage if it is plugged in while 
> Thunar is running.
> 2. If you plugin a usb drive before starting Thunar it isn't displayed 
> whether or not you mount it.
> 3. If you plug in the device while Thunar is running it appears and can 
> be mounted. But if you shut down Thunar and restart it it no longer 
> appears on the sidebar.

I'd like to say that I fixed it. But honestly, I have no clue whats
going on here. On startup, I used FindDeviceByCapability(volume), which
should - according to the documentation and my tests - return the list
of all currently connected volumes, no matter if mounted or not. This
seems to work just fine here (HAL 0.5.6, two different USB drives), but
it doesn't seem to work for other systems. I have tried to figure out
what GNOME does reading gnome-vfs-hal-mounts.c and change the startup
procedure accordingly. Looks like it still works here, can you check it
again?

> Is this a bug or is something weird on my system?

I tend to say neither. It's just HAL.

> PS: Thunar seems to be depending on pmount which is not shipped with Fedora.

Which replacement for pmount is provided on Fedora (btw. looking at the
source, there doesn't seem to be anything that prevents it from running
on Fedora)?

Benedikt