gnome-mount woes

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 10:28 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > Anyway, one thing I want is HAL's Mount() to accept an option, say,
> > "hal_put_in_per_user_private_dir", that will mount into /media/$USER
> > (with /media/$USER being of mode 0700). Then gnome-mount should probably
> > default to passing that option for all volumes it mounts. Patches
> > welcome for that.
> 
> I've been thinking about some additions in this area, making automatic 
> mounting more customizable. Our experience so far has shown that "expert 
> users" are usually more finicky and need more control, like being able 
> to specify alternate mount root (e.g. $HOME/mnt), mount point 
> permissions, add mount options, lowercase the mount point name ("so it 
> doesn't scream at me" :). Basically adding some more gconf keys. I'll 
> try to put together a proposal soon and send it here and to utopia-list.

Sounds good - some will need HAL changes; e.g. now we hardcode the mount
root to /media - it's probably fine to allow additional mount roots that
the user have write access to. Needs some security checks there though.
Things like mounting into $HOME can be tricky with NFS home though. So
perhaps we want to make sure people don't shoot themselves in the foot.
Shrug.

     David