device-automounter moved to kdereview

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 17 August 2009 08:29:09 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Kevin Ottens<ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> > For all the other users out there, the "mount on demand" as it is
> > implemented right now is enough. Anywhere you could access a device from
> > the UI we mount as soon as the user tries to make a first access attempt.
> > It's not like they need to know what mounting is...
>
> You know this falls flat on it's face with session restore? I get
> plenty of 'folder not accessible' messages every time I log in...

Different use case, and this one I'd have less problem to see it covered by 
default (although it can break horribly as well for the same reasons that I 
stated before). Note that it's not what it's about right now as the proposed 
piece of software doesn't cover it.

> Maybe see what the usability ppl have to say about auto mounting or
> not. I see how ppl who aren't very knowledgeable might need
> automounting by default, and I see how it could hurt them...

Nothing to do with usability, it's about a bad trade off. Here it's about some 
convenience for a few knowledgeable people which will in turn create harder to 
debug problems because we can't implement the feature properly in the first 
place (the underlying platform being lacking here).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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