Well if you think it's a bug you can provide a patch if you know a better way to probe for devices.
This mounting and unmounting of devices is one of the atrocities in Linux that reaches way back to the old server mainframes. If Linux should become more appealing to normal users this is one of the things that has to go. Having the device plug-n-play in QMapShack was one of the stronger user wishes from the QLandkarte era. Always with the nice hint that Basecamp does it that way. Personally I agree and I appreciate it quite a lot that I do not have to think about mounting or unmounting anything when I copy data. I plug it in, I see the data. I send my projects to the devices and simply unplug them. That simple. Of course it would be nicer to have a better way to identify the Garmin and TwoNav devices than to inspect their file system. But to my knowledge UDisks2 does not provide the USB device ID. Nor any other interface that can be found on all Linux derivatives. But I do not know everything. If you know better go ahead. But as long as there is no better reliable solution this won't change. Oliver Am Montag, 19. November 2018, 17:49:30 CET schrieb brad: > That seems like a bug. QMS should not try to unmount a device that it > didn't mount. In my opinion, QMS should not automatically mount > anything either, that should be left up to the user and the OS. > > On 11/19/18 1:02 AM, Oliver Eichler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > yes this is the behavior since device support was introduced. QMapShack > > probes all device on the USB interface by mounting them, testing for > > known device file system structure and unmounting them. If the device is > > blocked because another application has it's focus in the file system or > > it was mounted by another user the unmount will silently fail on the QMS > > side. > > > > Imho there should be no warning on the desktop manager side either. But > > that is debatable. > > > > Oliver > > > >> Gesendet: Samstag, 17. November 2018 um 16:52 Uhr > >> Von: brad <[email protected]> > >> An: "Qmapshack mailing list" <[email protected]> > >> Betreff: [Qlandkartegt-users] qmapshack tries to unmount external hard > >> drive > >> > >> When I start up qmapshack it tries to unmount my external USB connected > >> hard drive. A window pops up and I have to say no every time. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
