Hey, over at Xfce we have an application called thunar-volman that is used to perform certain actions when a device is plugged into the computer.
It distinguishes between various types of devices (such as removable media, CD-R/Ws, DVD-R/Ws, cameras, portable music players, PDAs, printers, tablets, keyboard and mice) and supports auto-mounting, auto-browsing and launching of arbitrary commands when devices are plugged in. Unfortunately it's implemented on top of HAL and mounts volumes with HAL as well which seems to be incompatible with DeviceKit-disks. When a volume is mounted with HAL and later someone tries to unmount it with DeviceKit-disks (via GIO/GVfs which are used in our file manager thunar), users are asked for the root password. So I'm thinking about dropping HAL in favor of DeviceKit-disks. Now my question is: Are all/most/some the device properties supported by HAL (like camera.access_mode, portable_audio_player or pda.platform) also available via DeviceKit-disks? I couldn't find them in the DeviceKit-disks reference manual and they are important for thunar-volman to work properly. If this information is not available via DeviceKit-disks, what other options do we have; (g)udev for querying device information + GIO for mounting? Does udev provide the bits information HAL supported before? Cheers, Jannis _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
