Re: [Utopia] gnome-vfs patch, take one

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 19:43 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > g-v-m will only mount media when it's inserted/hot-plugged. When one logs in
> > with a cdrom already inserted or a camera already plugged in nothing happens.
> > Which is nice, because i don't really want my dvd player to startup when i log, because i left a dvd in the drive or something like that....
>
> I submit that is a bug in g-v-m. 
> 
> When you login g-v-m should silently mount media and when you logout  it
> should unmount it. If you have enabled auto mounting, that is. Similar
> semantics should be implemented when someone gets around to implement
> fast user switching (or what's it called) on the console.

Totally agree here.  I think it makes sense to mount the removable data
media at startup, but probably not to start up music/dvd/photo apps.

> It's not that I'm totally against changing this behavior, I just see
> little gain and potential usability problems. And in certain cases, my
> experience tells me that the person writing the code should be the last
> one to decide policy and defaults :-)

I don't see any good technical or usable reason why you wouldn't always
mount media when it's inserted, although I admit I might be missing
something obvious.

(Note that when I say "mounting", I mean that in the technical sense of
basically calling "mount". :)  Not doing things like starting
music/dvd/photo apps)

Joe