Re: gphoto2 backend fixes

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Zeuthen <david fubar dk> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Here's a patch that fixes a couple of problems with gphoto2 devices
>
>  - The support for multiple storage heads broke some buggy devices (such
>   as the iPhone) for which the basedir of the storage head changes
>   every time the device is initialized.
>
>  - There was a silly logical bug that prevented us from detecting music
>   players reported by HAL.
>
>  - Minor cleanups in the gphoto2 volume monitor.
>
> The next item on my list is to make the rest of the desktop handles
> shadowed mounts. There are two ways to fix this
>
>  1. Go through all GVolumeMonitor users and make them honor the
>    g_mount_is_shadowed() flag; or
>
>  2. Add new API to GVolumeMonitor
>
>     get_shadowed_mounts()
>     ::shadowed-mount-added
>     ::shadowed-mount-removed
>     ::shadowed-mount-pre-unmount
>     ::shadowed-mount-changed
>
>    and a) port the volume monitors we have in gio+gvfs to this.
>
> So I think 2. is probably the best solution but I wanted to check here
> first.

2. would delay the solution until gnome 2.28 at this point.
Just use the existing api.