Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Helping with ipod support

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 03:32:05PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > However, and this is my point, I can't see how the HAL integration in
> > gnome-vfs will help, all that code does is just another way of
> > querying what volumes you have on your system - and gnome-vfs doesn't
> > automount and the user may not run an automounting daemon, so
> > rhythmbox will probably still need to mount(1) the volume. [2]
> 
> Currently, a big part of the Rhythmbox HAL code is there to detect when
> something is plugged/unplugged, and then it checks whether the device
> which was plugged is mounted and if it's an iPod. I think it's cleaner
> to use the mounted/unmounted signals from GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor, and
> then use the gnome-vfs HAL code to get the device UDI. This leaves us
> with the function which uses HAL to check if the device is an iPod in
> Rhythmbox.

Umh, OK, yeah, that makes sense now that GNOME VFS actually exports
the UDI. Pretty clever actually, perhaps I should just read the code,
sorry.

> And I agree with Bastien when he says it's not Rhythmbox's job to mount
> the volume.

But see my reply to him.

Cheers,
David