Re: nautilus behaviour w.r.t removable media?.

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:00, Vijaykumar Patwari wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Could you please give your opinion on the following nautilus behavior
> w.r.t removable media ?
> 
> Scenario 1:
> 
> a) User-A logs into the SUSE machine (say M1) through remote login from
> machine (say M2) (e.g. gdm.conf change allows user to remote login into
> suse machine from a Solaris box).
> b) User-A logs into SUSE machine (M1).
> c) User-A inserts CD-ROM into drive, connected to M1.
> 
> Observed Behavior : 1. Nautilus window showing the contents of the
> cd-rom appears on both the machines.  
> 
> What should be the behavior in this case ?.

This has been disabled in later versions. Now no windows pop up.

> 		    2. Here we get two desktop icons say {CD-ROM and CD-ROM(2)} on
> both the desktops, is this a bug?.

This is due to older version of nautilus writing .desktop files to
~/.gnome-desktop to create the desktop icons. With a shared homedir like
this and two copies of the app you would get two desktop files. This is
fixed in later versions of nautilus which use in-memory object for the
desktop icons.

> Scenario 2:
> 
> a) User-B logs into the machine (say M1) through remote login from
> machine (say M2) (e.g. gdm.conf change allows user to remote login into
> suse machine from a Solaris box)
> b) User-A logs into SUSE machine (M1).
> c) User-A inserts CD-ROM into drive, connected to M1.
> 
> Observed Behavior : Nautilus window showing the contents of the cd-rom
> appears for both the users. 
> 
> What is the expected behavior ? Should nautilus window be shown for the
> owner of the cd-rom drive only or it should be shown for both the
> users?.

Now the windows doesn't show up at all, but the cdrom icon will appear
on the desktop. Is this right? I'm not sure. Both people can probably
read the cdrom...

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