Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

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

I wonder if a low-level system like GIO should really decide about 
volume visibility or rather provide the info to let the front-end 
decide. For instance in KIO-GIObridge i only want to filter the remote 
GVFS mounts. At the moment i am achieving this with listing only the 
mounts which don't point to file://, but that looks like a hack. A nicer 
solution - i think - would be some kind of "domain" attribute for 
volumes and mounts ("remote-vfs", "removable-media", "local", "fuse"...)

Regards,
Norbert