Re: Gnome 2.14 default logoff dialog and diskmounter-applet

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 19/06/06, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> > Could you elaborate about which aspects of the drive mounter you find
> > to be problematic?  The current design should be a lot more effective
>
> Dont know what the original commenter disliked about the applet but I
> found it annoying that the icons are set to be generic looking drives
> ("mystery meat") to start with, even though each button is assigned to
> specific device type.  Only when the drive is mounted change to look like
> CD/USB/Floppy etc and that little bit of extra guesswork/memorisation is
> something I could do without.

That is something that might be worth fixing.  The drive mount applet
gets all the drive images from gnome-vfs (using
gnome_vfs_drive_get_icon and gnome_vfs_volume_get_icon).  If gnome-vfs
is changed to provide better icons for unmounted drives/volumes, that
will fix their display in the applet and Nautilus.

James.