On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Johannes Lips <johannes.lips@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> BOn Tue, 30.07.13 16:14, Dan Williams (dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 23:03 +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: >> > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:28:55PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> > > > thunar and pcmanfm are file managers and require ConsoleKit for >> > > > handling >> > > > removable storage. >> > > >> > > Are you sure you aren't confusing this with something? HAL maybe? >> > >> > There's some interaction with ConsoleKit to ensure that the removable >> >1;3406;0c storage is tied to a specific session so that the logged-in >> > user can >> > actually modify their USB drive. Otherwise it's only accessible to >> > 'root'. >> > >> > So yes, something *else* (HAL, udisks, etc) actually handles the >> > mounting, but there's some other components involved in permissions and >> > mount location, and that's where ConsoleKit helps out. >> >> But that's stuff that is hidden beneath udev/udisks not sure why a file >> manager needs to know that... > > There is some stuff regarding thunar on this blog post by one of the thunar > developers: > http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors > Chris, Please file a bug with various upstreams (if you haven't already) to switch to udisks so we can retire ConsoleKit. MATE no longer has any use for it and neither should XFCE. I only picked up as a knee jerk reaction. It shouldn't be that hard for upstreams to move away from it. It wasn't for us. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
