On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David Zeuthen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:09 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Martin Pitt<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Dropping the mount options from the UI entirely stops people from >> > being able to share their USB hard disk with other users on the >> > system, though. There might be a few other use cases, but this one >> > seems to be the most obvious to me. >> >> Sharing devices seems like something that should be properly designed >> as a feature, not exposed in some backwards way via obscure mount >> options... > > Right. Keep in mind that the Mount() method supports the 'remount' > option so presumably if you wanted to share mounts you could hook into > that and then do the right thing e.g. change dmask for FAT mounts. For > example you could write a Nautilus extension that exposes this either > via a Cluebar (like the CD burner one) or menu options. But I think it's > going to be hard to implement anyway, e.g. you can't really do this for > ext3/ext4 since it involves mocking around with permissions on the root > folder.
What about the codepage/iocharset/utf8 type options? Probably everyone agrees that everything should be unicode, but that doesn't govern what's already on someone's USB key today. I know this was a big issue for some people. -- Dan _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
