Benedikt Meurer wrote: >>what is the reason for not automounting inserted media but waiting for >>the user to click on it? It is especially confusing when in a /media/dir >>remove/insert and a manual refresh or explicit mount is needed to see >>the contents again. > > The reason to not auto-mount in Thunar is simply that you can have any > number of Thunar instances running at the same time, and all of them > would try to mount the media. That's why auto-mounting in Thunar should > be done as a daemon (linked to thunar-vfs), which simply mounts the new > volumes reported by the ThunarVfsVolumeManager. If anybody wants to > start work on this, feel free to do so.
This daemon would also implement the second part of the autostart-spec[1] (the first part is already implemented in xfce4-session). This way Xfce will fully support the autostart-spec. Benedikt [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fautostart_2dspec _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
