Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 April 2012 16:16:42 todd rme wrote:

> > So what a solution is there foe USB and CD drives automounting? Should it 
> > remain a desktop-specific issue?
>
> What is the advantage of handling it in a separate manner?  All the
> major, maintained desktop environments seem to have no problem with
> automounting.  So besides supporting old, almost unmaintained versions
> of desktop environments like KDE 3 and Gnome 2, what advantage would
> such a shared system have?

Well is you want to win a competition against other desktop environments by 
forcing them to
re-implement the same things and manage hardware by their own, your strategy of 
not implementing
system-wide subsystems would have a reason. But only if you want to win by 
impeding development
and function of other desktop environments.

Currently KDE3 has a daemon that does auto-mounting. I think other desktops 
have a similar daemon. 
Implementing auto-mounting with udev rules will free the memory and processor 
cycles.


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