Re: Fuse mount always opens nautilus window

[John Keller <gnome johnkeller com>]

Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 00:50 +0100, John Keller a écrit :
>> David Zeuthen wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 07:14 +1300, Jason Taylor wrote:
>>>> That dosn't seem ideal shutting off the windows for users usb sticks etc.
>>>>
>>>> There's no way we can do it per mount?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe if the mount point starts with a . ?
>>>>
>>>> How does the gvfs fuse bridge get around this?
>>>>
>>>> GNOME nautilus 2.22.0
>>>>
>>>> I thought the whole point of the /media folder was to say if you mount
>>>> here then show on deskstop?
>>>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT
>>>>
>>>> Whats the benefit of doing this for all mount points?
>>> We're showing mounts only in /media and $HOME. That's the policy we
>>> decided on.
>>>
>>> And, yes, we should probably avoid showing mount points that start with
>>> with a dot. Can you file a bug for that please? Then we can get that
>>> into the next glib stable release.
>>>
>>> Btw, the root cause is a bug in Nautilus. We only should be opening
>>> windows for devices that we mount from Nautilus itself. Right now that's
>>> a little bit hard since volume monitoring is decentralized. Something
>>> we're planning to fix for 2.24. Alex?
>>>
>>>       David
>> Is this the same reason that my unmounted partitions show up in the
>> "places" sidebar? (When using Mandriva 2008.1 RC2.)
>>
>> My hard drive is partitioned in 4 ("/", "/usr", "/home" for my stable
>> install, and another "/" for a test install). In 2.22's Nautilus, I see
>> the first three unmounted volumes. My guess is that I'll see the fourth
>> from my stable install once I upgrade.
>>
>> This is kind of annoying. I can understand using "Computer" as a
>> catch-all, but the places sidebar is a convenience feature. It's not
>> very convenient when my links (at the bottom) are drowned by a list of
>> partitions I never want to mount.
>>
>> (As an aside, I remember the discussion on this list with Fred Crozat
>> involving /mnt vs. /media - so if this is a Mandriva-specific behavior,
>> I'll bring it up there.)
> 
> We are only displaying /mnt mountpoint which are either vfat or ntfs.
> For the rest, we are following upstream policy.

Cool, good to know. Thanks, Fred.

- John