[Thunar-dev] automount

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>what is the reason for not automounting inserted media but waiting for 
>>the user to click on it? It is especially confusing when in a /media/dir
>>remove/insert and a manual refresh or explicit mount is needed to see 
>>the contents again.
> 
> The reason to not auto-mount in Thunar is simply that you can have any
> number of Thunar instances running at the same time, and all of them
> would try to mount the media. That's why auto-mounting in Thunar should
> be done as a daemon (linked to thunar-vfs), which simply mounts the new
> volumes reported by the ThunarVfsVolumeManager. If anybody wants to
> start work on this, feel free to do so.

This daemon would also implement the second part of the
autostart-spec[1] (the first part is already implemented in
xfce4-session). This way Xfce will fully support the autostart-spec.

Benedikt

[1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fautostart_2dspec