auto-mounting

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Tue Sep 6 17:56:32 CEST 2005


Samuel Wright schreef:
> Hi All
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what is the opinion of XFCE devs, and others, on 
> auto mounting of CDS and USB Drives? Is it considered totally 
> unnecessary? Not the job of XFCE? Is it on the todo list (how hard is it 
> to implement)? (Should I be talking to the people developing the file 
> manager?)
> It is (in my opinion) one of the greater stumbling blocks that people 
> not experienced with Linux face.
> 

Does gnome-volume-manager not do this? Although, I don't think it is 
very widely used yet, with the dependency on udev/dbus/hal.

Something like that (basically an interface for HAL) could be 
interesting for the filemanager(s) in Xfce.
	
	Jasper



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