D15739: [Places panel] Don't show Root by default

[Fabian Vogt]

fvogt added a comment.


  In D15739#485979 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15739#485979>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > In D15739#485978 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15739#485978>, @fvogt wrote:
  >
  > > Well, the only mount of interest is the overlay mount of /, which is not backed by any (block) device but rather by two filesystems. AFAICT udisks doesn't care about this kind of mount, not sure what solid does.
  > >
  > > Showing an overlay mount as "Device" is also somewhat wrong IMO.
  >
  >
  > I'm saying that regardless of the technical details of the backend, it never makes sense to not show any devices. From the user's perspective, there is always a device of some sort, regardless of its underlying configuration. There can't not be a device. That doesn't make sense; software requires hardware.
  
  
  Even if all (block) devices and their mountpoints were shown in the devices view, there would be no equivalent of "/". One loop device provides the read-only base for /, but that's actually more confusing than the current state as it looks like /, but is only a read-only view of "the past".
  
  I guess solid needs to gain support for mountpoints not backed by devices?

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