Re: [Utopia] gvm mounting too much at startup

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:38 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:17 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:49:43AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > >   I got some complaints from debian users that gvm mounts too much on
> > > >   startup.  After some research it seems that g-v-m just mounts
> > > >   everything on startup even if ``mount removable drives/media'' is
> > > >   turned off. This is easy to fix ofcourse.
> > > > 
> > > >   More ``problematic'' is that some people don't seem to like it that
> > > >   their static disks are mounted on startup. For example some stray
> > > >   windows or os X partition. Maybe a ``Mount static disks on session
> > > >   start'' option would be
> > > >   nice for this. Any opinions about this ? 
> > > 
> > >   Patch which does this is attached.
> > 
> > That doesn't have its place in the preferences UI, IMO.
> 
> Another way to solve this problem attached. It allows one to specify a boolean
> property in hal called storage.policy.manual_mount, which when true causes gvm
> to not automagically mount the volume.
> 

Hmm - what about just making g-v-m respect the already defined property
storage.automount_enabled_hint that is defined in the hal spec?

http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#device-properties-
storage

Thanks,
David