thunar-volman usage survey

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:29:51 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > thanks to the messy situation with HAL and DeviceKit-disks,
> > thunar-volman (the program that auto-mounts volumes and runs
> > commands when devices are connected to the computer) is currently
> > incompatible with the latest release of Thunar.
> >
> > The general problem is that thunar-volman needs HAL to query certain
> > information about devices. Unfortunately, the same information
> > appears not to be available via udev or DeviceKit-disks (which
> > doesn't support cameras, PDAs etc. anyway), meaning that there is
> > no alternative to HAL for this scenario yet.
> >
> > This is where things get kinda tricky because
> >
> >  a) GIO's volume monitor is based on DeviceKit-disks and doesn't
> >     notify Thunar when cameras, PDAs etc. are connected, and
> >
> >  b) mounting volumes with HAL (which is what thunar-volman does
> >     through exo-open) seems to be incompatible with DeviceKit-disks
> >     (which is what Thunar uses through GIO/GVfs; unmounting
> >     HAL-mounted volumes from Thunar currently causes a root password
> >     dialog to pop up).
> >
> > In order to resolve this (as in: make a decision about the future of
> > thunar-volman that satisfies most people without causing too much
> > work ;)), I'm interested in knowing what parts of thunar-volman are
> > enabled by our users (yes, this means you!). So, if you're using
> > thunar-volman, please fill out the following survey (it's very
> > short, one checkbox for each of the features):
> >
> >  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R2KYSND
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jannis
> 
> Just a comment. I'm a fairly new XFCE user and simply use it as
> configured by Gentoo for a default setup. I haven't tried to do any
> specific optimizations and due to this I really don't know how to
> answer. I'd be happy to try and find out but that might take some
> time...
> 
> You might want to consider adding some sort of "I don't know" response
> to your survey in case there more people like me than you might have
> planned for.

In that case, just don't answer, that's fine. ;)

  - Jannis
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