I don't know what these highly-developed do exactly, but I guess there's a GUI and a (suid-root?) backend calling mount.
Something like that is my understanding too. The program calling mount is hald-subfs-mount, and it's not tied to either KDE or gnome. I have not yet seen a reason why this has to be a C program, I reckon I can do it in bash and it's not too difficult.
Is it difficult to create a shell script or a little console app called by HAL to do the automount?
No, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141544 has the framework already.
Volker already suggested a /etc/sysconfig variable
Can't claim credit for that one. Disabling subfs just means that above script has to mount -t something instead of -t subfs. The actual fs type is supplied by hal in the environment to the script.
I also agree that the *.fdi files are *NOT* user-friendly and would be happy to have a better solution.
Me too. Stay with fstab thanks, and nobody needs to read more docs. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.