Alexandre Moreira wrote:
>> I just released the first version of the Thunar Volume Manager. It adds
>> automatic management of removable drives and media to Thunar, without
>> adding another daemon to your desktop sessions. It requires Thunar
>> 0.5.1svn or above, HAL 0.5.0 or above and D-BUS 0.32 or above.
> 
> Just a silly question but, how does it manage to get the events
> without being a daemon ?

Voodoo magic ;-)

Ok, maybe not... Thunar acts as a proxy between hald and thunar-volman.
Since Thunar is running and monitoring HAL events anyway, that's pretty
easy. Whenever HAL reports a new device, Thunar runs thunar-volman to
handle the new device (if "Volume Management" is enabled).

Benedikt
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