disk volumes under "places" in file manager

[R Skinner]

On 01/01/12 01:50, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 12/30/11 6:42 PM, R Skinner wrote:
>> I don't know either. I'll have a look at the date it was published and
>> see how far off they are from completion. I only asked because *if* it
>> is coming then my own project would be pointless to pursue on any large
>> scale, only as a bandaid solution until its arrival. Also depending on
>> what FreeBSD policy will be on how it will be implemented.
> Not sure what you're working on, but there is always a need to improve
> the way GNOME integrates with FreeBSD.  I'm sure no one would be opposed
> to someone taking a serious look at obsoleting hal on FreeBSD.  A port
> of the various udev-based libraries from Linux would be nice (upower is
> done), but anything that accomplishes easy automounting and volume
> management would be a good start.
My intention is not to port udev system, but to leverage the devd system 
(which I believe it is based on anyway- just in userspace) which is more 
complete and already working within the FreeBSD system. From what I have 
read I don't believe dbus is going anywhere, so I don't see it as 
impossible using this system (as long as I can figure out how to use 
dbus :) ).

I was intending only to help the mounting system, but it does appear 
this is getting bigger than Ben Hur. Once I figure out a reasonable 
method for disks it should be a simple procedure to get acpi and what 
not to work as well. My aim is to use what facilities FreeBSD has to 
attain what linux has done, and possibly assist even console users.

I use Icewm, so I wasn't entirely interested in Gnome support, but it 
appears they're related in the backend and the file managers seem to be 
Gnome based. Kde should be only an extension of this. And as I 
mentioned, if this is where the gtk developers hang out at FreeBSD then 
I'd better subscribe so I'm plugged in :)

Cheers