Re: Device (un)mount applet

[<pauljohn ukans edu>]

There is a dockable/swallowable app for Windowmaker and other
such windowmanagers called wmmount that has all of this functionality.
you might consider it!
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2471/index.htm

It works great for me!
pj

On 22 May, John Ellis wrote:
> Is there any program or function in gnome to easily mount and
> unmount devices such as cd-roms, floppys, Zip disks, etc?
> 
> Is anyone working on such a feature? If not I could start writing
> such a facility myself. My idea is to have a panel applet that could be
> configured to mount a directory (like /mnt/cdrom) using the mount
> command. To keep it simple, an entry must be in /etc/fstab so
> a command such as 'mount /mnt/cdrom' would work. This makes
> it easy to specify which device is controlled by the applet (just
> select properties and type in the mount location). This applet
> would support multiple instances in the panel (one for each device).
> And the Icon would change to reflect the device's mount status.
> 
> Or perhaps the file manager should contain this functionality.
> 
> John
> 
> --
> John Ellis <gqview@geocities.com>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5235/
> 
> 

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