Re: Proposed: gnome-volume-manager

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Andrew Sobala">

> * Doesn't work with linux 2.4.x, which is probably fair enough, but would
> we like a better failure mode? At the moment you end up with things like a
> capplet with all sorts of options that look useful but don't do anything.

Yeah, knowing if it will operate correctly at all would be really good, and
then perhaps silently quitting the daemon if that's the case? No sense
wasting good memory. ;-)

> * Requires user to enter command lines to run programs.  [ This can be
> fixed in the long term with an fd.o "Application capabilities" spec, but
> not for GNOME 2.8]

Totally. This is a great start, and can be fixed easily enough in later
iterations. 

- Jeff

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