Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 12:50 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> 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).

I think there is nothing to "explain" to users. They just end up with
stuff in nautilus "computer:" and will have no idea how it is filled.
Asking them to move mountpoint won't be easier..

I don't understand why this kind of policy is hardcoded in glib code.
IMO, it should be in HAL .fdi file and not in code...

> 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.

We (Mandriva) are using /mnt for "static" (ie already present on the
system before install) Windows partitions (since there is no rational
for moving them in /media, as stated in FHS) and creating other random
mount points is not a option either.

> That's my opinion anyway.

Well, since you obviously don't want to add "/mnt" to the list, it means
I'll have to create a vendor patch for this. This is unfortunate but I
guess I'll have to live with it.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva