[Thunar-dev] thunar-volman 0.1.0

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>> thunar-volman uses exo-mount. Since HAL refuses to mount fstab entries,
>>> exo-mount will use plain old "mount" command to mount the device. So,
>>> yes, that should work. It's exactly the same as mounting devices from
>>> Thunar.
>> And the latter does not work for me. *That* was the reason I asked. I was sure
>> that I already described this, but anyway:
>>
>> I plug in my Hama flashdisk for example. Thanks to hal+udev I now have the
>> following entries in /dev:
>>
>>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-01-15 22:46 /dev/flashdisk -> sda
>>   brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 0 2007-01-15 22:46 sda
>>
>> But Thunar shows only „sda“ in its sidepanel instead of „flashdisk“. We already
>> discussed this somewhere else and you (or maybe someone else, I’m not sure) told
>> me that this was a hal problem. I remember sending a mail regarding this to the
>> hal ML but never received an answer.
>>
>> So, what will thunar-volman do? Will it show/mount the device as sda or flashdisk?
> 
> That seems to be a rather old version of Thunar. Update to the latest
> SVN version, that should fix the problem.

...and here's why: ;-)

Up to 0.5.0, Thunar used pmount, gnome-mount or halmount, whatever was
available. However all these utilities behave differently, and of
course, they behave differently on various platforms. Esp. pmount is
tricky, since it doesn't use the HAL "Mount" method, which could confuse
HAL (and software using HAL -> Thunar, xfdesktop, ...). That's why I
added exo-mount, which uses HAL if possible (as said, HAL cannot mount
entries in fstab) and (hopefully) behaves the same on different
platforms (some platforms require special care, and exo-mount takes care
of that).

Benedikt