Re: [patch] Support showing drives and volumes on the desktop

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:16 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> The right policy for showing drives and volumes is exactly what we have
> right now, *plus* the addition of showing drives which do not support
> media checks.

What does it look like if you have, say, a USB 4in1 card reader plugged
in with no media in any of the slots? This is pretty common in many
desktops nowadays.

I guess we probably shouldn't display an icon on the desktop if we know
there is no media in the drive... and briefly looking through the patch
I can't see how you would know whether a drive supports media checking
because gnome-vfs don't export it (we could though) and you don't query
hal (would be better for gnome-vfs to export it).

    David