Hmm we need to add below to info to the GVolume docs. So people dont get confused :-)
Here is a patch: > For your details, maybe we should also hide the /usr/local mountpoint... Yep I agree on that. / Mikael On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 09:32 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:43 +0100, Mikael Hermansson wrote: > > I tried to figure out how the GIO's GVolume[Monitor] API works. > > > > It seems broken or maybe its HAL thats is buggy or maybe its me that is > > buggy and dont understand how it should work ;-) > > > > My mtab has this mountpoints: (unrelated "system /proc etc..." has been > > removed) > > > > /dev/sda7 / ext3 rw 0 0 > > /dev/sda5 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > > /dev/sda8 /usr/local ext3 rw 0 0 > > > > But the only that shows up in GIO is /usr/local (/dev/sda8)??? > > GVolumeMonitor is not an exact mapping of the unix mtab. If you want > that there is some unix specific APIs in gio-unix. > > GVolumeMonitor is for listing the "user interesting" devices and volumes > on the computer. In other words, what a file selector or file manager > would show in a sidebar. Now, since unix APIs for these kinds of things > are pretty sucky its not always possible to make the correct decisions, > but the intent is that: > > GDrive - this represent a piece of hardware connected to the machine. > Its generally only created for removable hardware or hardware with > removable media (but then again, unix APIs here suck, so its hard to > detect things like this). Not all volumes have a corresponding drive. > > GVolume - something that can be mounted an contains a filesystem. In > general this is a partition (although this might not be true for e.g. > some kinds of remote volumes). volumes can be stored on a drive, or be > stand alone. There might be several volumes on a drive. > > GMount - a "mounted" filesystem that you can access. Mounted is in > quotes because its not the same as a unix mount, it might be a gvfs > mount, but you can still access the files on it if you use GIO. Might or > might not be related to a volume object (you might have mounted > something that is somehow not visible when enumerating volumes). > > For unix, we never create volumes for the root of the filesystem, nor in > places that are the standard filesystem hierarchy mountpoints > like /home, /usr, /proc etc. These are generally part of the > implementation of the computer and not interesting to users. I.E. they > are always availible, not mountable/unmountable by users, and not used > as places to store or load files (in your homedir, yes, but not > in /home). > > For your details, maybe we should also hide the /usr/local mountpoint... > > _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list