Hi, first a quick status update: the project to add VeraCrypt support to GNOME made good progress in the last months. Our work on Disks, glib, GVfs, and partly GTK+, was merged already:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/issues/84 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/merge_requests/120 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/merge_requests/4/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/260 The remaining important merge requests are: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/126 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/200 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/244 We hope that these can be merged in time for the GTK+ 3.24 / GNOME Shell 3.30 releases. Given the feature freeze will happen soon, time is pressing. Our main concern is the GNOME Shell merge request (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/126), which seems to be stalled, possibly due to holiday or higher priority work, which is why we're hereby reaching out to the broader GNOME development community, in the hope that someone has time to look into it :) We are also concerned about the merge request for including interesting device mapper devices and loop devices in the GTK places sidebar (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/200), which was rejected. The purpose of this merge request is to include encrypted file containers in the sidebar. Based on our user survey, file containers are very common among VeraCrypt users (used by 76% of Tails+VeraCrypt users): https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/veracrypt/#survey We did not get an explanation for the rejection, except that there should be no special-casing of these devices in GTK+. So a couple weeks ago, we asked for a clarification and we explained that we don't think that this would qualify as special-casing, given these volumes are already listed by the GVfs volume monitor: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/200#note_261361 The volume monitor documentation explicitly states that it lists devices and volumes interesting for the user, i.e. "what a file selector or file manager would show in a sidebar". In our tests, the only volumes that were added to the sidebar by our patches were encrypted volumes (excluding those on internal drives). We would appreciate to get a comment on this, because we see this as an essential feature for the usability of the VeraCrypt support in GNOME. Thanks a lot in advance! Cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
