Now that I have a Mounting tab I can see why we were not communicating fully in the previous thread. :-) I'm starting a new thread so we start on the same page.
With that dialog enabled, I now see you are using UUIDs in mediamanagerrc. I was unable to see that previously because without the underlying code being compiled that caused the missing Mounting tab, those features of TDEHW were not working. :-)
I don't know your TDEHW FIXME to-do list. So please accept my apology if I am covering topics you already know. :-)
- You already know about the problem of retaining the same icon label
across different physical ports. Now that I have access to device-specific mounting options, I can see that mediamangerrc contains mounting options per UUID, but TDEHW remains confused about applying icon labels. From what I think I see after multiple insertions/removals of the same device across three different USB ports, TDEHW is assigning icon labels based upon device nodes rather than UUID. You mentioned in a previous post you saw the problem in the code, so I'll watch for a patch.
Patched in GIT hash b18416d.
- Some features of the Mounting dialog are missing, which are reflected
respectively in mediamanagerrc too. Here are some screenshots, the first set from a HAL system and the second set from TDEHW:
HAL:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/mounting-dialog-floppy-h... http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/mounting-dialog-usb-hal....
TDEHW:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/mounting-dialog-floppy-t... http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/mounting-dialog-usb-tdeh...
Missing features:
Generic Mount Options: Quiet Filesystem Specific Mount Options: Flushed IO Mount as user Short names
<snip>
Unfortunately those options are disabled on purpose due to limitations in pmount. Reading the man page (http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/pmount) for pmount reveals no way to set those options; if someone bugs the upstream pmount project and they make those options available, those options can be reenabled in TDE with a few lines of code.
- Safely Remove does not work. That is, using that option will unmount the
device but does not remove the icon from the desktop.
Likely a udev/eject problem; it works here but your previous comments indicate that your udev subsystem may not be working as well for some reason.
- Eject does not work with CDs/DVDs.
See above comment.; not likely to be a TDE problem.
- Icon appearance times remain weird, some fast, some very slow.
Same as above.
- Does TDEHW poll floppy drives? The floppy Mounting dialog (Unmounted
Floppy icon) has a check box to mount automatically, but the option does not yet seem implemented.
Good question! I don't have a floppy drive handy to test with. Remember though that TDE relies on udev for transmission of all device plug/unplug/state-change events, so you might be able to find out using the udevadm monitor command I posted earlier.
Tim