Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (65 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:02 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to discuss what to do with gnome-volume-manager.
>
> Some background: since GNOME 2.22, most of the interesting stuff (like
> mounting disks) that g-v-m did has been moved to nautilus upstream.
>
> So if you look at the current g-v-m, it's now playing a few roles. Most
> of them are not that useful. Here's the list of more or less useful:
>
>  + display a notification when there's not enough disk space.

Yes, needs to be kep.

>  + launch kino when plugging a video camera.
>    => we don't install kino by default... But I can see how this could
>    be useful.

Indeed, but same as next item really.

>  + do some stuff when palm and/or pocketpc are plugged.
>    => this is disabled right now. Maybe it makes sense to keep this,
>    though?

Longer term yes, but its never been on and never complained about.

>  + launch the configuration tool for printer when a printer could not
>    automatically
>    => this can be moved elsewhere (the system-config-printer applet,
>    and that's what will actually happen if we move to hal-cups-utils)

Yes.

>  + display a notification when a new printer has been configured
>    => same stuff (system-config-printer applet, etc.)

Yes.

>  + launch a configuration tool when plugging a scanner
>    => shouldn't this just work now?

Dunno, its a very old thing, at least ~3 years and may go back to when
fewer scanners were USB.


>  + launch something when a mouse/keyboard/tablet is plugged
>    => if we still need this, then we should really fix X.

Correct, everything seems pretty automatic there now, except maybe the
tablet stuff.

>  a) completely drop gnome-volume-manager. We need to make sure that all
>     the features are moved elsewhere, though.

+1

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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