thunar-volman usage survey

[David Mohr]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Bela Markus <bmarkus at hasix.org> wrote:
> Jannis,
>
> please share the result when it is closed. I ported Xfce4 to Tiny Core Linux
> and had also port HAL just to have automount. Especially in the Tiny Core
> environment HAL is a pain and its features are not needed by most of the
> current users.
>
> Sorry to mention "competition", but I'm happy using LXDE without HAL and
> automount, what can be provided with udev BTW if really needed.

Nothing against LXDE, but why do you mention it? You could certainly
also use Xfce without HAL.

~David

> 2010.01.11. 23:04 keltezéssel, Jannis Pohlmann írta:
>
> 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
>
>
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