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.
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