[Thunar-dev] thunar hal and moun/umount/eject

[daniele favara]

On 2/20/06, Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> daniele favara wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > how does thunar mount , umount and eject volumes ?
> >
> > does it uses hal or some cmds as pmount ?
>
> According to thunar-vfs-volume-hal.c it seems to use pmount-hal and
> pumount if available and has standard mount and umount as a fallback. It
> uses the eject command to eject volumes.
>

yep ...

it seems that with newer dbus and hal ... there is even another way to do that,

[org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume]

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-December/004077.html

i was thinking it may cause problems on distros that doesn't use it
... maybe Suse and fedora|red hat ?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/2006-January/msg00002.html


it was maily to tell Benny about this :)

ciao

df