Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:24 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:13 +0100, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 13:41 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 15:43 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> > > > Hey Alex,
> > > > 
> > > > (Hi i18n team: there's a string break request near the end of this
> > > > mail)
> > > > 
> > > > Here are some updated patches
> > > > 
> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/nautilus-fixes-2.patch
> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gvfs-fixes-2.patch
> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gio-fixes-2.patch
> > > > 
> > > > New fixes that weren't in the earlier patch set
> > > > 
> > > >  - Only consider mounts under /media and $HOME to be user visible. This
> > > >    makes it a lot easier for users to understand what they have to do
> > > >    if they want to hide or show a mount point. And users have been very
> > > >    loud about this issue. Also revert the commit where we hide NFS
> > > >    mounts; if the user don't want NFS mounts to be shown they just need
> > > >    to mount them outside /media. Or if they want it shown they need to
> > > >    mount it inside /media. (It would be weird to mount NFS stuff
> > > >    in /media anyway)
> > > 
> > > Please, also monitor stuff in /mnt (it has been discussed at length on
> > > #nautilus).
> > 
> > I really think this should be a --configure option as its kinda a
> > distribution decision. Can you whip up a patch for that?
> 
> Well, it should be /mnt AND /media and $HOME. I don't really see the
> need for a configure patch..

I'm not sure everyone wants everything under /mnt show up as "user
visisble" volumes. Its an old-style unix thing and may well contain
"implementation-specific" mountpoints that are symlinked into from other
places (something /usr -> /mnt/hdb1/usr for instance).

I'll let davidz reply with his opinions on this.