Re: Mount point detection [was: Re: GtkFileChooser API work]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:49, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El mar, 02-09-2003 a las 09:57, Alexander Larsson escribió:
> [...]
> 
> > > And do we need a way to set a default list of directories?  Can we
> > > just populate the immutable part of the list from a few well-known
> > > locations like ~, ~/Desktop, removable volumes, etc.?
> > 
> > Regarding the immutable part here and removable volumes in particular.
> > This should probably be at least partly synchronized with the nautilus
> > tree sidebar. At some point this means sharing the code that does volume
> > scanning and mount detection. This part of nautilus is horrible, and
> > could do well with a rewrite, perhaps pushing it to a lower level so
> > that gnome apps could use it in the file selector.
> 
> 
> Perhaps we could do something like the Apple's autodiskmount[1] daemon?
> 
> We could use DBUS as the notification protocol, this way we could share
> the removable volume notification between GNOME, KDE, XFCE or any other
> application that could need it.

Hmmm. Using dbus we could even patch mount to send the mount events,
thus avoiding the need for polling files...

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