On 31/12/2007, David Zeuthen <davidz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe I wasn't clear, but what I was trying to say in my earlier mail > that the issue at hand isn't really a big deal; if you think about it > it's a quite absurd discussion isn't it? We're talking about people who > wants to hide mounted partitions from the desktop. Some people, like me, would just expect that said partitions after being explicitly unmounted didn't get automounted next time they login. I have no issue with them being listed on computer:// I just would like policykit to forget the authorization I gave the first time that dialog came up if I explicitly unmount. > I'd like to think that if you have a dedicated partition that you > actually go through the trouble of mounting at a non-standard mount > point, then it's because you have data on it that you want to access. If > you want to access the data, then you should get an icon on the desktop. Agreed. > Now, you (or rather, the people with 8 linux distros on their system) > can argue that you didn't mount the partition yourself; that damn GNOME > did that for you automatically. So maybe the answer is that we need more > fine grained control of what gets automounted and what doesn't [1]. > Maybe it means adding an option so this dialog > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/pk-gnome-mount.png > > looks like this > > [ ] Remember authorization > [ ] For this session only > [ ] For this volume only I think the first option is enough if the unmount worked as I described above. And the last one, I actually would expect it to be always checked, i.e. I'd assume that dialog is already tied to a single volume. But that seems to be a current policykit shortcoming as you explain later. > Yay, more options. But fear not. The desktop live cd for F9 and onwards > will come configured to never show the users such stupid annoying > dialogs (note: only I may call them annoying and stupid because I wrote > them :-) hehe) because we'll grant the user this authorization by > default (we can make assumptions about how the desktop live cd is used > since it's, uhm, targeted for desktops). > > And all the people with 8 linux distros on their system can then just > use polkit-gnome-authorization or whatever to tweak the authorizations > such that the file systems they want hidden aren't mounted. Several laptops come with one or more "system partitions". Mine currently shows up in my desktop because I gave that authorization. I'd like to remove it from the desktop. This isn't a geeky use case I think. Rui -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
