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

[Benedikt Meurer]

daniele favara wrote:
>>>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 :)

This doesn't seem to be very useful on its own. We could use
gnome-mount, which in turn uses the HAL methods, but afterall pmount
still looks a lot more useful for this purpose.

> ciao
> df

Benedikt