On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:26 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/7/05, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, for admins I suppose that gconf-editor is pretty good? > > gconf-editor can be..adequate.. under certain conditions. The primary > one being you know exactly what boolean you are looking for before you > go looking for it and its not a critically important setting. I would > suggest that a boolean that can have serious system-wide effects like > the problems you described in your post isn't something people > shouldn't have to troll through the gconf tree for.. in a panic. We > aren't talking about turning on metacity wireframe window moving to > get a slight speedup on low end hardware. You mentioned potential data > corruption situations... i think thats important enough to expose in > sort sort of dedicated ui. Potentially important enough to be a > firstboot dialog. You make some good points here. At this point, I don't really know, I *think* we may want to put it somewhere in the install/firstboot and perhaps also ask other questions so it looks like [ ] Automatically mount internal fixed drives (1) [x] Automatically mount external storage devices (2) [ ] Require password for write access to external storage (3) [x] Ignore SCSI drives for auto mounting (4) [x] Except optical drives (5) where (2) and (3) is needed for lock down; think either a) system in a library where people are not allowed to copy material to USB sticks; or b) an enterprise with low trust in their people ;-). That's this article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html - search for ''epoxy''. Also, (4) and (5) is needed for the "enthusiast user" that uses SCSI drives; by default we ignore them since we can't really tell apart a Fiber Channel controller with 500 drivers from the enthusiast with his, say, two SCSI drives - we don't want the former to get 500+ icons on the desktop for mounted drives (I had a bug report about that pre-FC3), however, we do want the latter to work... So, it's all pretty complex if you want to auto mount drives in a sane way without screwing everyone. For the UI for these options, I think we need some of the interaction/ usability guys to say whether we can ask the user these questions :-). We'll see.. Cheers, David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
