----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Bagge / brother <[email protected]>
> To: Andrea Florio <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:18:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lxde-list] lxde seen from a long time gnome user
>
> Andrea Florio wrote:
> > check this blog post:
> >
> > http://jamesthevicar.com/blog/?post=20090716_lxde_gnome
> >
> > i think lots of his suggestions should be integrated..
>
> > I have to work with USB drives a lot, taking documents to machines
> > that are either not networked or to which I don't want to email. LXDE
> > doesn't automount drives which makes working with them take a lot
> > longer than under GNOME. This also affects using USB music players.
>
> PCManFM shows the drives in the sidebar, indeed they are not mounted but
> clicking on them mounts them and that is sufficient for most people
> afaik. Auto mounting just because it's possible is not anything I want
> to see. Guess what happens when someone connects an USB hub with a dozen
> of drives attached to it, no the user should be in charge of the drives
> not the other way around.
>
>
I share similar sentiments on this point. But I would like to share
that I had observed in either Zenwalk and Vector Linux that, inserting
a USB drive would make the drive appear on the desktop. SImilar to the
current behaviour in PCManFM, the drives will only mount when clicked.
I wonder if this behaviour will improve usability?
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