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coreplayer2:
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--- Quote from: coreplayer2 on July 11, 2011, 12:14:47 PM ---
A refresh button is great but how about open "mnttool" on drive detection? If you connect a USB thumb drive for example, it is detected so why not present the mnttool which is the next expected action of the operator?
It follows that if you connect a drive there must be some intent to use it, no? You could take this one step further and mount the drive considering this is the intention of connecting the drive, whilst leaving the mnttool up for the inevitable removal.
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Such popups "I see you put in an usb drive, would you like me to blabla" are really against the idea of TC to me. Also discussed before.
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Exactly it's obnoxious, I hate that too so I'm just throwing out the worst possible idea, leaving the innovative thinking to the experts who are now aware.. just bringing some potential area's where minor improvements wouldn't hurt to your attention and who knows perhaps one day...
I'd say why not simply skip all the steps in the process and just auto mount the USB thumb drive which was connected with the intention of using it right? A mount tool's purpose then becomes a removal tool. I think the steps could be streamlined for a more fluid user experience.
A bit late now but this was probably not the right location for this discussion
florian:
--- Quote ---I'd say why not simply skip all the steps in the process and just auto mount the USB thumb drive which was connected with the intention of using it right? A mount tool's purpose then becomes a removal tool. I think the steps could be streamlined for a more fluid user experience.
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I disagree with the automount suggestion. Mounting is not always the proper behaviour. Consider that one might occasionally connect a USB device just in order to get extra info (using lsusb, etc...)
In addition, I believe automount goes against TC's philosophy to empower its users. Automount is enabled by default on turnkey distros because the approach is to guess the user's intention (user probably has the intention of mounting the USB key). On the other hand, TC's approach is to give the user the capability to decide by herself. And thus TC provides a mounting facility UI but does not hide the fact that connecting a USB device and mounting its filesystem are fundamentally different operations.
bmarkus:
My view is that automount most be provided by higher application levels, for example DE like Xfce or LXDE, not the base.
Lee:
My first thought is that automounting a removable device is a bad idea in almost any circumstance. The only possible exception that comes to (my) mind would be some kind of "device copier" but then the copying application could handle the mounting.
Perhaps some optional method could be devised at the system with specific filesystems designated (by UUID or label) to be automounted when inserted, but (imho) the default should always be to -not- automount. I wouldn't even bother with an optional method myself.
Also, any file system that is autmounted would have to be umounted before being fsck'd.
I find it comforting to know that my filesystems aren't going to get trashed until I explicitly make them available for corruption. :)
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