Yaron Tausky wrote:
I've been hacking a bit with the SynCE[1] code -- especially the GNOME VFS integration -- and I thought I'd better ask here on the matter of further desktop integration. I want to reach the point where the device is presented on the desktop and the computer:/// URI in Nautilus upon mounting.
There is alreasy a gnome-vfs module that would let you browse your PDAs filesystem (synce:///) - all that needs to be done is just some API that would let this and other gnome-vfs modules to show their icons in the Computer folder. I don't know, however, if any such API exists in gnome-vfs/nautilus or whether the desktop developers are interested in it.
> Ideally, gnome-volume-manager should be a plugin-based daemon that will > be able to take care of any kind of hardware, but since this isn't the > current state of affairs, I'd like to hear your opinion on how to > implement it (assuming that HAL announces the device).
You don't need to assume - HAL does announce the device :) Moreover, it does announce whether the device is connected and other details if you've got synce-hal in your system - the code will land in SynCE cvs this week (I am the dude who's working on it).
As for g-v-m: I don't think that it is supposed to take care of the PDA's filesystem or whatever other device that is not a storage device. My guess that a PDAs device representation on the desktop is something like a remote network share or ftp connection or something like that. So I guess nothing should be done except for showing the PDA in the 'Computer' folder.
cheers, Andrei _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
