DevicePresentationHide udisks::device property

[Lisa Vitolo]

I see. Thanks a lot :)

2012/6/22 Ayan George <ayan.george at canonical.com>

> On 06/22/2012 09:52 AM, Lisa Vitolo wrote:
> >
> > I'm writing a partitioning library based on udisks and I have a
> > doubt: what's the actual meaning of the DevicePresentationHide
> > property for devices? The documentation says such a device should
> > be ignored by applications, but for what reasons the application
> > should wish to hide it from the user?
>
> The device shouldn't be 'ignored by users' but it is a hint or
> suggestion that the device not be displayed by user interfaces:
>
>
> http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-disks/Device.html#Device:device-presentation-hide
>
> I think the intent is to prevent filesystems that are mounted at
> boot-time like root from showing up in desktop user interfaces and you
> can probably be ignored if necessary.
>
> -ayan
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