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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:13:15 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Khairil Yusof <kaeru@streamyx.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Looking for something to do?
Message-ID:  <1072242794.31677.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031224040230.GB9533@wolverine.home.net>
References:  <1071901810.451.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1072215739.1268.8.camel@gyros> <20031224040230.GB9533@wolverine.home.net>

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On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 23:02, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> =20
> > Once the volumes are mounted, they will show up.  That should have
> > worked for a long time.  However, I was trying to add the ability of
> > putting user-mountable volumes (e.g. CD-ROM) on the desktop before they
> > are mounted (giving the user the option of mounting them from the
> > desktop).  This is not working for some reason.
>=20
> Here's what I got:
>=20
> User mountable drives show up in the Computer folder, and double
> clicking on them does try to mount the drives.

Ah!  Don't I feel stupid.  I was so used to the way it worked in GNOME
2.4, I never thought about the new spacial design.  Thanks for
clarifying.

>=20
> Apart for vfs syctl, in fstab, I had to fill in the full path to my user
> mounted dir.
>=20
> /dev/da1s1 /home/kaeru/mnt/camera msdos rw,noauto 0 0

Right.  This is expected.

>=20
> I can't however create any type of link to it on the desktop. It fails
> with a "Unsupported Operation" on a file operation message.

It may be due to the special VFS type of the pre-mounted volume.

Joe

>=20
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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