houghi wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:59:28AM +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
Anything else than Gnome or KDE isn't ready for the desktop anyway. So this is not an argument. If someone knows how to use alternativ windowmanagers, he also knows, how to mount medias by hand. If he doesn't, he will switch back to KDE. That's my experience...
yes, he will switch back. That is also the most lame excuse as to why it should work on KDE and Gnome and not on anything else.
I don't agree. While having a solution that works for other window managers and for the console, Karl and Marcel's point isn't wrong. I mean, it's not like it would be impossible to mount a pluggable device. Use mount and umount. And, yes, I do agree it's a step backwards, etc... And once again, KDE and GNOME couldn't find a common solution with a core daemon that runs without dependencies on any of the environments + a layer that's specific to each environment. While competition amongst KDE and GNOME is a good thing in general, on some topics they should really find a common solution. And don't tell me they do with freedesktop.org, I know better ;)
Why support it on KDE? Just drop it on KDE and only sport it on Gnome. If people can not figure it out how to do it on KDE, they will switch to Gnome. Oh wait: Let's not support it on Linux alltogether. If people can not get it, they can switch back to Windows. At least if I would follow the reasoning that other enviroments are not allowed to have automounting.
Stop trolling. Being disrespectful to people just won't help.
OK, back to finding a solution.
Yes please.
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