device-automounter moved to kdereview

[Trever Fischer]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 6:18:43 pm Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimarts, 3 de novembre de 2009, Jacopo De Simoi va escriure:
> > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 02:15:20 Trever Fischer wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 November 2009 6:45:18 pm Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > > > On Monday 02 November 2009 23:56:14 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > > > > > So you /don't / have to use UDIs (unless you're manually adding
> > > > > > to the list) to use the feature.
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe we need to get rid of the UDIs and provide some more not
> > > > > just user-friendly, but "human-friendly" strings.. Having to deal
> > > > > with them even in some cases is not really acceptable. I'll try to
> > > > > have a look into this to see how we can sort this out
> > > >
> > > > Just quickly playing with the solid minibrowser I have a few
> > > > suggestions
> > > >
> > > > First of all, show whichever icon solids give to the device, it
> > > > really really helps to figure out what we are talking about even
> > > > before we start reading.
> > > >
> > > > The volume property info.product is quite uninformative (usually
> > > >  Volume(ext3)), but if you jump back to the closest relative which
> > > > has a info.product property you will find quite interesting things,
> > > > such as ExpressCard, or stuff like that.
> > > >
> > > > Then I'd compose a string with the following field (with parent I
> > > > mean the closest device in the hierarchy which has the infos
> > > > required)
> > > >
> > > > parent.info.vendor parent.info.product volume.info.product (size)
> > > > Some real-life examples:
> > > >
> > > > Seagate FreeAgent Go Backup_HD (160 Go)
> > > > ST325082 0A MediaHD (250 Go)
> > > > Lexar ExpressCard ssdhome (5 Go)
> > > > Lexar ExpressCard ssdroot (3 Go)
> > > > SD02G Volume (ext3) (2 Go) (with SD icon)
> > > > Kingston FCR-HS219/1 MicroSD (2 Go) (I'm cheating here... MicroSD is
> > > > the volume label)
> > > >
> > > > Still, as you can see there's room for improvement, in particular the
> > > >  second guy was giving quite debatable information about itself
> > > > (however still better than
> > > > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_ECBF_30CC)
> > >
> > > Nonetheless a good idea. I added it to the GUI.
> >
> > Ok, now this looks much better; what about this, now, to make it look
> > even better;
> >
> > If (and only if) there exists more than one volume with the same parent,
> >  group them with the parent; then the parent will be shown with vendor()
> >  and product() and total size (should be available with
> >  storage.removable.media_size) and then each child (partition) would just
> >  show description() and size This is visually better since it removes
> >  redundant information for partitions of the same drive. and makes it
> >  easier to browse.
> >
> > On the other hand, if a volume is an only child, then don't add another
> >  node and use the long description we talked about yesterday.
> >
> > Also, imho the informations should be refreshed even if it's already
> >  present in the .rc file whenever possible; besides; who is responsible
> > to fill in the devices in the .rc file? the daemon I suppose; would it be
> > possible to save the pretty name we have found for our device at the
> > daemon level? so that whenever you connect the drive, the user would find
> > it with its pretty name in the disconnected devices node as well. Having
> > it set up at the daemon level could make the kcm part merely read it from
> > the .rc since it will be automagically updated.
> >
> > Moreover, I believe that the Add device button is useless; nobody would
> >  really enter the udi of a device.
> 
> I agree here, and the forget device is not of much use either
The reason I put it in was I figured there needs to be some way to undo the 
otherwise permanent memorization of "automount this device because it has been 
mounted before".
> 
> > Nice job!
> > @Albert, what  do you think about the ui fixes?
> 
> The list let's you do multiple selection, i don't think that makes much
>  sense. Also i tried to change Automount on login and Automount on attach
>  from No to Yes on my pendrive but wasn't able to do it.
Multiple selection lets you forget more than one device at a time. Also, those 
two fields only change when the device list is rebuilt. I'm thinking I should 
build a model specifically for the KCM so that the updating of this is done 
when the checkboxes are toggled, and it'd be a lot cleaner than just a 
qstandardmodel.
> 
> Albert
> 

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