Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:30:15 +0200 From: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option Message-ID: <44321277.7040904@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44316387.1090609@FreeBSD.org> References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <4430BA79.2030403@freebsd.org> <44316387.1090609@FreeBSD.org>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > What I'd like to achieve is a simple out-of-the-box way of mounting > media such as CDs, and floppy disks without users necessarily needing to > know about sysctl. While I can't speak for KDE, I know GNOME already > has the ability to detect user-mountable media, and gives the users > icons on the desktop to mount said volumes. I don't know what exactly you mean with 'detect user-mountable media', but a KDE user may have desktop icons for every device/fs listed in /etc/fstab. I assume GNOME works in a similar way. And clicking on the icon of course will mount the media with the 'mount' command. KDE also monitor changes to the fstab file and can open a dialog window when a new media appears, but since the fstab file is not automatically updated on FreeBSD (I don't know how it works exactly on Linux) this feature is quite useless. -- Alex Dupre
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