Re: [Nautilus-list] Bugs and Features

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Диконов Вячеслав" <sdiconov mail ru> writes: 
> 1. Please, if only possible, add these options to the preferences dialog:
>        - Let Nautilus take care of mounting filesystems [yes/no]
>        - Display mounted volumes' icons on the Desktop [yes/no]
>        - Display (this mountpoint entry in) the devices menu [yes/no]
>        - Eject disk when unmounting [yes/no]
>        - Open Nautilus view of the mounted media if the disk was mounted by
> external program. [yes/no]
>        - Automatically mount when entering mountpoint(s). [yes/no]
>     It would be best to set these options on a per-mountpoint basis, if
> possible.
> 
>     The reason is that, since I happen to use autofs, apt-rpm/apt-cdrom and
> other software that mounts and unmounts devices on its own, the CD-ROMs'
> trays open and close LIKE MAD. Autoject happens and nautilus shows up when
> there is no need of it, seemingly at random. This is highly frustrating and
> dangerous for the trays! I've already hit it with my knee when it suddenly
> opened becouse of automatic freeing of the unused media. I am stuck here,
> becouse I don't know how to disable the mounting code in the current
> versions of Nautilus.

Adding prefs here is dangerous, because it results in never fixing the
problem of apps that don't work together properly with removable
media. It would be better to spec out how apps are supposed to
interoperate in this area, and then fix apps.

Havoc