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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:16 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Right now, Nautilus only supports showing volume icons on the desktop.
> This is fine for volumes which are not associated to a drive, and for
> auto-mounted volumes which come out of drives which HAL and friends can
> monitor.
> 
> However, certain drives like floppies and Zip drives (and some broken
> CD-ROMs) don't support media checks.  That is, the hardware won't notify
> the system when the user inserts media in the drive.  Thus, HAL and
> g-v-m are not able to automount the drive as soon as media is inserted.
> For this kind of drives, the only way for users to access them is to
> open computer:/// and double-click on the drive there.  This is really
> cumbersome.
> 
> 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.

I don't see how the right policy can ever be filling the always visible,
always lacking space desktop with stuff that is very rarely used
(floppies???). The current policy was very much a design choice. I don't
see what is so cumbersome about going to computer for this. And, isn't
it also availible in the places menu of the panel?

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