disk volumes under "places" in file manager

R Skinner rocky at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Fri Dec 30 23:46:07 UTC 2011


On 12/31/11 09:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 12/30/11 6:07 PM, R Skinner wrote:
>
>> No- kio, I believe. Thats what stumped me, I knew about kio through
>> kio-slaves and what not. I had no idea its was exactly the same in
>> Gnome; I thought they were supposed to be diametrically opposed?
> No.  They are different, not necessarily opposite or uniquely different.
Ahh.
>
>>>> And hal goes the way of the dinosaurs... good riddance! ;)
>>> Until someone builds out comparable features using devd or other such
>>> capabilities, hal is not going away in FreeBSD.
>> I'm starting to get the idea that thats what I'm attempting to do... :(
>>
>> What about D-VFS? Is that on the horizon? Is it worth it?
> Not sure.  I am personally not working on it.  I do not know if there is
> official support in GNOME yet for it.
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.


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