Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 19:20 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> I think there is nothing to "explain" to users. They just end up with
> stuff in nautilus "computer:" and will have no idea how it is filled.
> Asking them to move mountpoint won't be easier..

In Fedora there's plenty of users complaining about stuff showing up. 

> We (Mandriva) are using /mnt for "static" (ie already present on the
> system before install) Windows partitions (since there is no rational
> for moving them in /media, as stated in FHS) and creating other random
> mount points is not a option either.

Not sure why you want to do this; Windows and Mac OS X disks on my
tripple-boot Mac Book Pro laptop show up nicely on my system via
HAL/gnome-mount/nautilus/gvfs without me (as a user) having to do
anything special nor did my vendor (Fedora) have to do anything special.
It Just Works(tm).

(Sure, the first time I access them I get to authenticate for a
PolicyKit authorization but that thing is a one-time pain.)

My point is that this kind of stuff just needs to work in GNOME without
having the distro vendor jump through hoops and mount stuff in weird
places.

     David