tom wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:07:52 -0400 > David Zeuthen wrote: > > > One way to make such annoying drives disappear in GNOME and some other > > desktop environments is to set the UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE (or if you > > are on an older distro than F13 vintage, it's called > > DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE) udev property like e.g. this > > Yea, I found that, but it has already changed three times now > (first you used hal, then you used DKD, now you use UDISK). > I figured a lower level eradication might stick through > more changes :-). in addition, the wouldn't the solution then apply to "all" desktops, instead of "GNOME and some other" desktops? given how often this comes up, i think it would be very useful for there to be a page fully describing the reasons that the udev project thinks the feature is a bad idea. when i asked in november for the reasons behind not being able to hide devices, i got somewhat vague reasons. (and i'm clearly still not convinced. :-) simply stating "suppressing events at the udev level is wrong" isn't terribly compelling. paul > > Having some user configurable way to utterly hide devices > does seem useful. I recall having a "helpful" operating > system "upgrade" all the partitions on a disk once, thus > rendering it utterly useless in the multi-boot environment > that could boot older kernels. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
