[Thunar-dev] automount

[Peter]

Jani Monoses wrote:

>>When volumes removed occurs, the volume was already unmounted, so no
>>file manager window can display the contents of the volume anyway.
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>but if I am in the said directory and remove the media thunar will stay 
>there and pop up errors if I try to list the dir. That's normal since it 
>is gone. This is actually the use-case that prompted me to start this 
>thread ;)
>I copy-pasted the pre-unmount hook and connected it to removed and it 
>behaves correctly. Seeing these signals have different prototypes
>and instead of one function two very similar ones needed to be written
>to handle both remove and explicit unmount lead me to ask the next question
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>>>Btw why added and removed work on list of volumes, could they not be 
>>>called once for each volume added?
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>>Better save than sorry... right now all backends add volumes one by one,
>>but that may change in the future.
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>Even if that changes for some reason that could be done via listing them
>in that backend and calling remove one by one. It just seemed simpler to
>me to use one volume at a time. No lists need to be constructed and 
>prototypes of signals are the same. I am reading the code and am 
>obviously biased towards making it simpler to read so I can better 
>understand it ;)
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>>>As for the daemon VM: isn't thunar always running a single instance 
>>>always thanks to dbus.
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>>Only if compiled with D-BUS and the D-BUS daemon is running. Otherwise,
>>there can any number of instances.
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>If there's no DBUS there's no HAL so we remain with the freebsd/solaris 
>case. If a daemon was written would it not talk via dbus too?
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>I agree that having a separate daemon may make maintenence easier though.
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I may be totally off my rocker here, but I remember something about
Ubuntu putting DBUS stuff in user (erm, non-root) space.  What if I run
the following commands:

su $familymember
Thunar --display=:0

I really don't know enough about DBUS to tell if this would be a problem
when doing automountish stuff.  Would this create multiple instances of
Thunar?  If you would, please enlighten the noob ;).

>Jani
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