Re: Nautilus/autofs (was Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager)

2001-12-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That would be nice, but it would mean another process running inthe > background polling the mount point. Yes, but then you don't need the autofs process (which BTW uses to usurpate all my removable drives regardless of which of them are in the config files -

Nautilus/autofs (was Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager)

2001-12-07 Thread Mental
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:43PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > This would indeed be the best way to handle floppies in my opinion, > but last time I looked at Nautilus i found that it ideally should work > so, but really doesn't. Maybe sometimes in the future this will become > reality ... >

Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager

2001-12-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Andrew Sione Taumoefolau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nautilus tends in most cases towards the Mac way of doing things, which, > different though it may be, is usually more usable than the Windows way. > Nautilus ideally should create a floppy icon on the desktop when a user > inserts a disk (and

[quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:57:29AM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Both suffer from the same inability to deal with floppy drives in a > sane way, wrt mounting/umounting (Nautilus most, cause there isn't > even a default floppy icon on the desktop). > > Sorry all you Unix Wizards, but I'm dealin