Handling of volumes: thunar vs. places

JoeHill joehill at teksavvy.com
Fri Sep 21 19:25:00 CEST 2007


Diego Ongaro wrote: 

> 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

For some reason, I always assume that I would be the only one to point
something like this out, and I'm almost always wrong.

> . Feel free to take actions 2 or 3 described there.


Okay, thanks. :)

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