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

[daniele favara]

On 2/24/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 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.

i agree .. it was just to tell you. If i'm not wrong in some threads
you were talking about fedora way of mounting devices ... i think that
is.