On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:47 +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > > In Gnome, when I run Nautilus in browser fashion it has a computer icon > > on the toolbar. If I click on it it shows me floppy, CD-ROM and mp3. If > > I click on them it mounts it and then shows the contents. To unmount it > > I right click and choose Unmount Volume before removing it. This works > > with a vanilla kernel and no automount daemon running. HTH > > Hmm, I wonder how that works then? Did you by any chance compile dbus > and hal as pre-reqs to Gnome? The only reason I ask is that I know > 'ivman' (http://ivman.sourceforge.net/) does a similar thing entirely in > userspace and relies on those packages (and 'pmount') to do its thing.
Actually, I think all Gnome does (without HAL/GVM) is look at fstab to determine what devices should appear. Attempting to open those volumes causes it to attempt to mount them. In contrast, with HAL/GVM it goes one step further - the list of available volumes is based on information provided by the kernel, and is updated (thanks to HAL) whenever new devices appear - e.g a usb stick being plugged in or a CD/DVD being inserted. GVM can then automatically mount the new volume, and opens a nautilus window to browse it (actually, it can use custom programs for DVDs, cameras, etc, but I just use nautilus). Incidentally if anyone else is interested in trying this stuff out, feel free to ask me. Over the last six months, it's gotten quite a bit easier than it used to be, particularly with Gnome 2.11. One of these days, I'll get around to writing a hint for it... Simon.
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