Re: Removable media management

[Peter Bauer <comicinker gmx de>]

Am Montag, den 26.05.2008, 08:23 -0400 schrieb David Zeuthen:
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:38 +1200, Jonathan Musther wrote:
> I'm working on something like this
> 
>  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html
> 
> and my plans include writing a Nautilus extension that adds menu items
> to the context menu as well as integration with the properties page.
> 
>        David
> 
> 

I can't get a survey of what GFVS is. GnomeVFS is deprecated, but the
documentation doesn't tell something about a replacement or an
alternative: http://library.gnome.org/devel/references

So I assume GVFS is again some collection of libraries. I suggest GIO is
at least part of it.

As far as I could understand DeviceKit isn't a gnome specific approach
(which is of course not bad!). And the API documentation from DeviceKit
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/
is either far from being complete or DeviceKit is not yet complete.

Isn't easier to extend GIO API? See this:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GDrive.html 
wouldn't it be nice to have a function like g_drive_set_name next to
g_drive_get_name?

And also some functions like
g_drive_get_fs_status  //!< check if filesystem was properly unmounted
g_drive_check_fs       //!< perform filesystem check where applicable 
g_drive_check_fs_on_next_boot  //!< ...
g_drive_get_fsck_period //!< where applicable...
g_drive_set_fsck_period //!< where applicable...
g_drive_format_filesystem //!< don't change partition, just format it

Or should this functionality be part of another library? Maybe all this
should be discussed elsewhere. But wouldn't be nice for the nautilus
team?

       Comicinker