On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:26:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Having USB sticks mounted automatically sounds like a task for the > > kernel maintainers to me (GNOME should just acknowledge it and react). > > Why ? The kernel can do that just fine, thanks to hotplug and the underlying > infrastructure HAL or whatever also uses. It is not usefull without > gnome/nautilus showing an icon for it though.
AFAIK, GNOME/Nautilus *does* show an icon for mounted volumes. The whole project utopia stack is about mounting things automatically and making hardware just work. So perhaps it was a transient problem with nautilus or a configuration issue. > > Nevertheless the GNOME/Freedesktop.org people finally did the work > > for us, so we should be grateful and not complain about the quality > > of the packages, IMHO. > > Cool. I still don't like the spatial view per default, and the > splattering of windows it implies. but then, i will almost never use > nautilus anyway. I somewhere read that this is supposed/planned to be more easily configurable in GNOME-2.8, so you might want to check that out, backport a patch and submit it as a whishlist request, if you think your customers rely on it. Don't expect the Debian GNOME team to fix things they don't consider broken, though. Michael
