On 12/31/07, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 30, 2007 10:33 PM, David Zeuthen <davidz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > For the simple user desktop case, I would agree with you. But there > are non-trivial multiuse scenarios that aren't easily planned for that > end up being a hybrid of desktop and server. Personally ive been > using the 99-redhat file to hide internal partitions on the machines > at home from desktop users which are mounted on demand by services > that make use of the storage area. Doing it at the hal layer makes it > hide everywhere in the Gnome interface: Computer, Desktop, and disk > mounter applet, which makes more sense to me. I was off the mailing list for the week and I see the discussion got long way since I started the thread... I read through posts on this thread and thought about it. I believe that having partitions show up on the Desktop is a good thing, because on a live CD if you want to make some recovery with live cd. On a desktop and laptop systems we (more advanced users or even beginners) have more partitions, maybe 2-3 different linuxes, windows, multimedia partition, document partition, windows shared partition... lots of partition :) No I don't use /home for all my data. I need some of them on my Desktop because it quickens my workflow but I believe that there should be an easy was to remove ones I (and others) don't need on their desktop. The best way from users point of view would be "right click - remove this icon from desktop" or some tool like called Fedora Tweak that would allow this (example: http://ubuntu-tweak.com/screenshots) I'm far from being a developer and I know about "upstream first", but as I understand this can be done without breaking gnome or doing anything against upstream Gnome. > Having all partitions show up in computer window as mountable but only > having some appear on the Desktop as mounted, doesn't make sense to me > either. Being able to turn off disk icons as a group in the desktop, > I understand, but selectively its difficult to see why you want them > to still be mountable but not show up on the Desktop when mounted. > I don't really understand why Valent wants a solution so high up in > the software stack and just worrying about hiding already mounted > partitions selectively. I'm trying real hard to understand the > reasoning to just hide the mounted systems on an individual basis. If > we were going to hide things, I would think we'd want to hide them > from the Gnome desktop everywhere and that means doing it in the Hal > layer so they don't show up in the Computer window as a mountable > partition. Maybe Valent doesn't really means what he thinks he means. > > > -jef I meant exactly what I wrote. Having an icon on the desktop and not being able to remove it easily (just remove it not unmount it) goes agings everything I know about desktop usability. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
