On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:51 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Interesting, thanks for the insights. It seems to me that it should > > probably be dependent on install class (e.g. allow this for laptops, not > > so for servers), but, eh, this is distro dependent. Oh well. > > Right; so far we just kept the paranoid approach, until somebody > complains really loudly. :)
Right. Btw, I'm not sure what approach Fedora will take, that's partly up to the Fedora maintainers - I'm only trying to influence them :-) > Also, there is nothing wrong if gnome-vfs shows mounted Windows > partitions and the like. In fact it has done so since the beginnings > of Ubuntu, and it is very handy. We just don't allow users to mount hd > partitions by default, but if they are configured in fstab (usually in > the installer), it can be used normally of course, and is fully > integrated into the usual Gnome places. Sure, I was thinking if you would be opposed to showing these volumes by default, e.g. upstream gnome-vfs shipping with /system/storage/display_internal_hard_drives set to TRUE by default? At least stuff like pmount or gnome-mount can then ask for auth in the event the distro is configured to require e.g. uid 0 to actually mount these things. I like this approach because it gives the user a complete view of the storage devices he got in his machine. How paranoid (and stubborn :-) distributions are is another matter. > BTW, it came to my knowledge that Ludwig Nussel from SuSE had a > similar idea: http://www.suse.de/~lnussel/pamwrapper/. However, I > didn't look at it at all so far. Interesting, will take a look. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
