Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:35 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > 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.

Only showing stuff from /media and $HOME is _a lot_ easier to explain to
users. /mnt is historically difficult to handle as some people put stuff
in there and don't want it to be shown; we don't have that problem
with /media. For /media we can simply tell people to move it to /mnt..
so if we showed /mnt we wouldn't be able to tell people to move it
somewhere sanely (/srv doesn't really count).

FWIW, I'm even opposed to a configure option, distros shouldn't behave
different. If a distro, for gods know what reason, what to show stuff
in /mnt they can patch the source.

That's my opinion anyway.

     David