Hi! As discussed yesterday in #u-marketing, I'd like to make two suggestions for the next UWN about new features that were implemented in Feisty.
As of yesterday, it was not yet clear whether you prefer mails to -marketing@ or additions to the wiki page [1], so I do both for now. Thank you! Martin [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas ----- Forwarded message from Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:22:35 +0100 From: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ubuntu Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New feature: mount local file systems in Gnome, please test Mail-Followup-To: Ubuntu Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no version=3.0.3 Hi all, as specified for feisty [1] we want to handle spare fixed hard disk partitions in a similarly easy way as we handle removable drives. So far those were not displayed at all on the desktop and it required some command line runes or things like disks-admin (which disappeared from Edgy) to use fixed hard disk partitions. With today's upload of gnome-mount_0.5 2ubuntu3 and last week's upload of hal 0.5.8.1-3ubuntu6, you will now get icons for hard disk partitions which are *not* automatically mounted from fstab, and can mount them the usual way from the context menu, diskmounter applet, etc. gksu verifies that you are an admin and gets the necessary root privilege for the mounting. If you are not in the 'admin' group, then you cannot mount local hard disks. Known caveats: - The diskmounter applet wants to eject fixed hard disks and gives an empty error dialog (unomunting works, though). I'll fix that soon. - Non-admins will see icons for fixed hard disk partitions, too, although they cannot mount them. This is because the visibility of those are determined by hal, so they are global. If it's too annoying, I can patch gnome-vfs to hide them for non-admins I welcome any testing feedback (to ubuntu-devel-discuss@ or as bug reports against gnome-mount or hal). Thanks, pitti [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountAllLocalFilesystems -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org Software is like sex -- it's better when it's free! [Linus Torvalds] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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