[Thunar-dev] automount

[jp]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jani Monoses wrote:
>   
>> Hello Benedikt
>>
>> 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.
>
> Concerning the refresh problem: Looks like Thunar is not built with
> Gamin support or Gamin is not running.
>   
Don't you think that mounting devices is a task that belongs to the OS 
(user space), not to the application ?

Maybe the actual state of kernel uevent implementation doesn't make it 
possible to implement this in a reliable way, and so that's why 
applications are trying to solve it through mechanisms like HAL/DBUS 
(btw : I did very powerful yet simple things with udev, making the 
automount feature available from Xwindow and console, ... , and 
independent from any application)

It's just my opinion...I hope it's not out of topic, but I really think 
that HAL/DBUS is just a workaround until there's true automount support 
in Linux, udev might be the right direction ;)

Best regards

JP

>   
>> thanks
>> Jani
>>     
>
> Benedikt
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