New devicenotifier moved to kdereview

Giulio Camuffo giuliocamuffo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 23:23:54 CEST 2009


In data martedì 06 ottobre 2009 18:16:23, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto:
: > On October 6, 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote:
> > or do you mean it doesn't show your / or /home? unfortunately the
> >  dataengines don't manage volumes handles by fstab, but only by hal
> 
> it doesn't show either of my disk partitions or the internal disk either. i
> don't expect fstab style handling, but i was surprised to see that my fixed
> hard disk didn't show up when i selected that option. the only reason i
>  could imagine is that those volumes are not user mountable.
> 
> looking at the code it does indeed use the hotplug engine for this and it
>  only shows devices for which there are action files. obviously there are
>  no action files for the internal hard disk ;)
> 
> so ... should we add an action file for fixed disks or should the notifier
> widget look into the soliddevice engine, or...? it's hard for me to say
> without knowing what the intended use of that feature is.
> 
in my opinion the applet should show all the devices, fixed or not, fstab or not.
i tried with the solidengine, but it doesn't show the other devices too. i think 
anyway a better approach would be to add an action file for them, and add a property 
in the DeviceItem to set if they are (un)mountable


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