From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 15:50:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17508106564A for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56478FC15 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:17 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pBVFoHvc023640; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:50:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from rtp-jclarke-8913.cisco.com (rtp-jclarke-8913.cisco.com [10.117.46.164]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pBVFoEt1029564; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:50:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EFF2F36.6080706@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:50:14 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: R Skinner References: <4EF9776D.3090500@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <87sjk4zmpb.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <4EFBC04B.5080203@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EFD1FA6.40801@freebsd.org> <4EFD31A6.7050205@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EFD4FE9.70109@freebsd.org> <4EFD91F4.5060807@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EFDE4BA.9060009@freebsd.org> <4EFE441E.3080700@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EFE472C.8090304@freebsd.org> <4EFE4C76.8010002@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4EFE4C76.8010002@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk volumes under "places" in file manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:18 -0000 On 12/30/11 6:42 PM, R Skinner wrote: > I don't know either. I'll have a look at the date it was published and > see how far off they are from completion. I only asked because *if* it > is coming then my own project would be pointless to pursue on any large > scale, only as a bandaid solution until its arrival. Also depending on > what FreeBSD policy will be on how it will be implemented. Not sure what you're working on, but there is always a need to improve the way GNOME integrates with FreeBSD. I'm sure no one would be opposed to someone taking a serious look at obsoleting hal on FreeBSD. A port of the various udev-based libraries from Linux would be nice (upower is done), but anything that accomplishes easy automounting and volume management would be a good start. Joe > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome