Looking for something to do?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 23:32, Simon Barner wrote:
> > * gstreamer[-plugins]: Make sure your favorite plug-in works.  Try
> > testing out gst-capable apps such as rhythmbox, gst-mixer,
> > nautilus-media, etc.
> 
> Koop Mast and me are working on this. I was able to build quite a lot of
> plugins, but I did not do any testing before.
> 
> Since I'll be away from FreeBSD until 29th, I have uploaded my current
> work here:
> 
> http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/gsp/
> 
> If you want to use these patches, be sure to contact Koop first, since
> is working on disjoint problems of the port, and I asked him to merge my
> results.

I'll wait for the final patch.  We still have a few months.

> 
> > * Nautilus' volume monitor code: The volume monitor code has been
> > completely re-written in GNOME 2.5, and I'm much happier with the
> > FreeBSD code.  I've tried to make the functionality as close to Linux as
> > possible, but you never know.  What you should test here is make sure a
> > mounted CD/DVD or floppy disk shows up on the desktop.  You should also
> > be able to do ``sysclt vfs.usermount=1'' then add an entry to fstab
> > where the mount point is owned by a user other than root, then see that
> > icon on your desktop even when the disk is not mounted.  You should then
> > be able to right-click on the icon, and mount the disk.
> 
> Unfortunately, that does not work for me.
> I set vfs.usermount=1, and my /etc/fstab looks like this:
> 
> /dev/acd0c             /home/simon/cdrom    cd9660  ro,nosuid,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0.1440          /home/simon/floppy   msdos   rw,nosuid,noauto 0 0
> 
> I can mount the volumes via computer:///, but there are no mount links
> on the desktop.

Right.  I was being silly.  The icons are found under computer:///.

Joe

> 
> Happy holidays,
>  Simon
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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