On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:48:31AM -0500, David D. Hagood wrote: > Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > >hi, > > > >I think HAL for linux should handle the automatic mounting and > >autorunning it take care. > >So it should be a part of HAL. > > > >my 2 cents. > > > > I strongly DISAGREE - as others have pointed out, the auto-running of > CDs is a severe mis-feature of Windows, one which we should NOT duplicate. > > Now, I could agree with the idea of a program that, upon receiving a > DBUS notification of a CD insertion, looked to see if there was an > autorun.inf file, and then *asked the user what to do*. IF the user then > said "Yes, please run this disk" then the program would parse the > autorun.inf file. > > Ideally, such a program would also maintain a database of CDs already > seen, and would allow the user to define an action for the CD that would > happen automatically - an action that may have NOTHING to do with the CD > itself. But the default action, for CDs never before seen should be "ask > the user".
cd programs/explorer/ vi hal.c Ciao, Marcus
