[Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> For the brave: I've just imported an initial version of the
>> thunar-volman, which provides automatic handling of removable drives and
>> media for Thunar. This requires a really recent version of Thunar.
>>
>> It's designed to look and behave similar to gnome-volume-manager, tho of
>> course, it's not bug-compatible. ;-)
> 
> this looks nice. In the past weeks I was considering moving to g-v-m in 
> xubuntu because it's pref GUI and autostart spec support but seems like 
> there will be no need. The reason ubuntu is going with gnome-mount and 
> dropping pmount for the next version is support for encrypted disks and 
> a GUI for the mount utility. Will these be matched by exo-mount and 
> thunar-volman?

thunar-volman lets exo-mount handle encrypted file systems, just like
every other file system. exo-mount currently doesn't support encrypted
file systems, simply because I haven't bothered to figure out how to
test that. It should be relatively easy to add. If anyone wants to help,
go ahead.

I don't know what you mean by "GUI for the mount utility". exo-mount
uses libnotify to give visual feedback of progress and pops up an error
dialog if mount/eject/unmount fails. Besides that, what kind of GUI do
you need?

> thanks
> Jani

Benedikt