On 31 March 2017 06:02:11 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:12:56 +0200 Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu> said: >> For example : how to mount automatically a USB memory ? What app does >> that ? > > e already does this but it mounts WHEN you open up the device in the > filemanager. The real problems are: 1. Getting the system to recognise that.a USB stick has been plugged in. On all the systems I have installed e on, this does not happen, although if I log out and then log in with xfce, it then recognises when a USB stick is inserted. Something in e defeats this, but I'm not skilled enough in interrupt detection to know what or where to look. 2. Notifying the user. Even when the system recognises the insertion (evidence: tail -f syslog), I have never seen e pop up anything to say a USB stick has been inserted. I'm not sure where it would do notification, especially when the dock at the bottom is slid down. Is it supposed to raise it? 3. Not all file managers are created equal. I can't use e's file manager because black on dark grey is largely unreadable, and I haven't found any way to make it show the file system hierarchy in a left-hand panel like other FMs do. Thunar is excellent (despite apparently having some bug people complain about) and it recognises and mounts inserted media every time. Dolphin was wonderful until someone took away all its icons: it's now useless. Gnome's is OK but limited. > it's dangerous to always auto-mount just because you plug some > removable device in. it means they will forever be "dirty" when you unplug > them > again even if you never used them. That would always apply if you fail to unmount the device, regardless of whether it was auto-mounted or manually-mounted. But auto-mount is evil because the system cannot know what application I may want to use on each occasion. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
