Handling of volumes: thunar vs. places

[Diego Ongaro]

On 9/21/07, JoeHill <joehill at teksavvy.com> wrote:
>
> Curious about something: in Thunar, when I connect my external drive, I can
> immediately open a window in that new volume from the shortcut pane on the left
> side. I do not _seem_ to need to take the step of mounting first. With the
> places plugin, I need to first navigate to the new volume, mount it, then open
> the menu again to open it.
>
> If the places plugin uses the same functions as Thunar to open the new volume,
> why the extra step?
>
> Lazy? Hell yes ;)
>
> --
> JoeHill

I won't waste effort in typing; please have a look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-places-plugin/+bug/136940
. Feel free to take actions 2 or 3 described there.

-Diego Ongaro
(xfce4-places-plugin author)