Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Jani Monoses wrote: > >> Hello Benedikt >> >> 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. > > Concerning the refresh problem: Looks like Thunar is not built with > Gamin support or Gamin is not running. > Don't you think that mounting devices is a task that belongs to the OS (user space), not to the application ?
Maybe the actual state of kernel uevent implementation doesn't make it possible to implement this in a reliable way, and so that's why applications are trying to solve it through mechanisms like HAL/DBUS (btw : I did very powerful yet simple things with udev, making the automount feature available from Xwindow and console, ... , and independent from any application) It's just my opinion...I hope it's not out of topic, but I really think that HAL/DBUS is just a workaround until there's true automount support in Linux, udev might be the right direction ;) Best regards JP > >> thanks >> Jani >> > > Benedikt > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > Thunar-dev@xfce.org > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev