I see. Thanks a lot :)<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/6/22 Ayan George <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayan.george@canonical.com" target="_blank">ayan.george@canonical.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 06/22/2012 09:52 AM, Lisa Vitolo wrote:<br>
><br>
> I'm writing a partitioning library based on udisks and I have a<br>
> doubt: what's the actual meaning of the DevicePresentationHide<br>
> property for devices? The documentation says such a device should<br>
> be ignored by applications, but for what reasons the application<br>
> should wish to hide it from the user?<br>
<br>
</div>The device shouldn't be 'ignored by users' but it is a hint or<br>
suggestion that the device not be displayed by user interfaces:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-disks/Device.html#Device:device-presentation-hide" target="_blank">http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-disks/Device.html#Device:device-presentation-hide</a><br>
<br>
I think the intent is to prevent filesystems that are mounted at<br>
boot-time like root from showing up in desktop user interfaces and you<br>
can probably be ignored if necessary.<br>
<br>
-ayan<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.<br>
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