Re: [gfvs] cdda backend

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:10 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Hmm, i guess. But how can the fav server volume monitor iterate over all
> mounts? It doesn't see other volume monitors.

It would use the union monitor through the standard volume monitor API?

> What would list_open_files() returns? A list of a new kind of GObject?

Yeah, I think.

> > Because, right now, it's a mess and every app (including the auto
> > mounter) does their own thing. The result, as you can see from the
> > screenshots, is that things not only look different, the names are
> > different too. (and ideally, there would be a stock "select_media"
> > dialog where you pass one or more x-content/* identifiers.)
> 
> Sounds like a good reason.

I'll try to iterate over the patch. Thanks for considering!

> > Of course, it's fine if this is not a goal for gio but then volume
> > monitor API of gio isn't really useful outside the file manager and the
> > file chooser and should perhaps be private API instead.
> 
> I just want to make sure we don't add something that apps can't use that
> we have to support forever. We need to make sure all APIs are right,
> sane and useful. I'm tired of maintaining big-bag-of-crap libraries...

Yeah. I'll try to be preemptive and raise the idea of x-content/* on the
xdg lists. That's one thing we want standardized...

     David