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Re: [trinity-devel] TDEHW Summary

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
> CD/DVDs: Not sure how this works, but the following happens
> when I insert a disk under both HAL and TDEHW:
> 
> * An icon appears on the desktop. The icon label is the name
> of the disk label, such as "Slackware64-current DVD."
> * A dialog appears asking me what to do.
> 
> Then this happens under HAL:
> 
> * The disk mounts to a mount point the same as the disk
> label, such as "/media/Slackware64-current DVD" (Pretty!)
> 
> Under TDEHW:
> 
> * The disk mounts to the mount point of "/media/sr0"
> (Functional but not pretty)
> 
> Is there a way to get TDEHW to use a mount point like under
> HAL? I do not have anything in mediamanagerrc for optical
> disks. I don't know how TDE/HAL creates/uses a mount point
> that matches the disk label. I'm guessing something in the
> halbackend code that can be copied/pasted into the
> tdehwbackend code? :-)

I tested this under Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5. The mount point is the same as the disk label, just like TDE under HAL. For example "/media/Slackware64-current DVD." We probably want to be consistent and do the same?

> * Compact flash disk icon: USB device rather than sd_mmc
> device: I'll test with the latest patches.

This is fixed. :-)


Darrell