Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:51 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 17:30, Robert Love wrote:
> > GNOME Volume Manager is a simple state machine that acts as a policy
> > engine on top of HAL.  It includes a control panel applet.  Said policy
> > includes auto-mounting of any hot-plugged removable device, auto-
> > mounting of media such as CD's and DVD's, auto play of {Blank,Data,
> > Audio,Video} CD's, and auto importing of photos from camera.
> 
> OK, just to gratuitously whine ;-)
> 
> One more control panel - ugh. They are like weeds! Worse, apparently
> being driven by tarball organization of the release, not by top down
> design :-/ cf. "Preferences, System Tools" thread. Not a problem of your
> making, but...

It replaces the one provided by magicdev, so it's exactly the same
number of control panels for distros that used to ship magicdev.

> Secondary whine - we could benefit from getting the footprint of the
> desktop down. I wonder if reducing the number of separate processes
> (applets, daemons, etc.) is one element of that.
> 
> Neither of these problems is g-v-m specific so of course I'm just using
> the occasion to whine, not opposing g-v-m inclusion ;-)

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
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