Re: [Utopia] gvm mounting too much at startup

[Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd luon net>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:48:36AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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

Hmm missed that one. 

It seems the naming isn't really consistent.  As all other storage policy
properties are under storage.policy, with defaults set on the computer device.
But i guess that falls under the ``no user visible changes in hal 0.4.X''
policy ? (Otherwise i'm willing to provide a patch)

Oh, just saw that the property is just set on the device itself not on it's
volumes.. Is the intended way to first check the volume and then it's parent for
the property ?

  Sjoerd
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