Re: Code freeze break request

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:21 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:33 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 2 - Don't automount gphoto:// volumes. This is problematic,
> >     as when they are mounted other apps can't access the device.
> >     Longterm they should ideally use gio to access the files so
> >     that everyone can share the connection and apps don't need
> >     gphoto specific code. However, atm the automount is causing
> >     problem by locking out apps using libgphoto directly.
> 
> I'm fundamentally against bending over for broken apps. At the very
> least please make a note in the release notes / NEWS / whatever that
> states that this thing is only something for 2.22 and it's going to
> change for 2.24. Also want to note that, by then, apps then either need
> to start using gio or do something else like making sure they can access
> the USB device. 

FWIW, there's already a bug I filed Monday

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520026

    David