Re: [Utopia] gnome-mount 0.3 is out

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:52:47PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="David Zeuthen">
> 
> > The grand plan with gnome-mount is to get the appropriate GNOME software
> > (such as gnome-volume-manager and gnome-vfs) to use this instead of
> > invoking mount(1)/umount(1)/eject(1) / invoking methods on HAL directly.
> 
> Does gnome-mount wrap pmount?

No, it will not use pmount. gnome-mount gets global device specific
options from HAL, uses (will use) gconf to look up user specified
options for specific volumes and uses HAL methods to do the privileged
mount/umount/eject operations.

(You probably ask, cause Ubuntu has the weird idea of running HAL
unprivileged. Be prepared, gnome-mount is only the first user that
requires a "normal" HAL setup, more will follow for other kind of
operations, so you guys may need to reconsider this decision, if
you want to be able to follow upstream development.)

Thanks,
Kay