Re: [Tracker] Problems with removable volume support

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Philip,

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 12:54 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Some platforms don't use udisk2 and/or gvfs so they fall back to the
> implementations behind gio/gunix*c. These implementations aren't
> always very reliable. In particular is the UUID of the volume not
> always correct with those implementations. It would be nicer if we
> could let something external to tracker-miner-fs fed us with that UUID
> and mount point name upon mount event, rather than using GVolumeMonitor.

I don't see why we would need an abstraction layer in tracker for this.
GVolumeMonitor is a GIO extension point. If there are platforms where
the gvfs/udisks2 implementation is not suitable, a platform-specific
implementation of GVolumeMonitor can be used. This should not require
any changes in tracker. That way, all GLib-based applications can
benefit from it.

Regards,
Jürg