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.

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

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

+ 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)

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

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

Here's a list of things that it does but are useless or that should live elsewhere IMHO:

+ launch f-spot when plugging a camera. => deprecated: nautilus does this now.

+ launch cheese when plugging a webcam => this is disabled by default, and I doubt that it's what people want to happen everytime (would be annoying if this happens each time I want to use ekiga, eg)

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

Also, the g-v-m capplet is confusing, see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379477

So based on all this, I can see two ways forward for 11.1:

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

b) hide the capplet, hard-code most settings to FALSE and only keep what's interesting to us.

I'd love to be able to do a), but it might be more reasonable to do b) now.

Opinions?

Vincent