Bug#507630: Acknowledgement (nautilus: Is gnome-volume-manager obsolete with nautils 2.24.x?)

[Sam Morris]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:50 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le mercredi 03 décembre 2008 à 20:55 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
>> > FYI, Fedora has decided to ditch g-v-m,
>> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/
msg01806.html
> 
>> In that case, I think gnome-desktop-environment should stop depending
>> on g-v-m and nautilus should probably add a Conflicts:
>> gnome-volume-manager. Otherwise we have two applications fighting over
>> who does the media handling.
> 
> I don’t think we should completely remove g-v-m. The following features
> are not in nautilus proper:
>       * video cameras
>       * start cheese when a webcam is plugged * initiate PDA sync
>       * launch xsane when a scanner is plugged
> 
> I think that instead, we should remove support in g-v-m for what is
> already in nautilus and keep what is not. The following should also be
> removed:
>       * initiate an action when a printer is plugged (already handled by
>         hal-cups-utils)
>       * initiate actions when an input device is plugged (already
>         handled by Xorg)
> 
> That probably means a revamp of the preferences box, since only the
> following remain:
>       * 2/3 of the 3rd tab
>       * the 4th tab
>       * half of the 5th tab
> all of which are purely optional.
> The title should probably be changed from “Removable Drives and Media”
> to “Removable Peripherals” as well.
> 
> After which, I’d add a Breaks: g-v-m (<< 2.24) in nautilus, and in all
> cases I’m going to remove the dependency in gnome-desktop-environment.
> 
> Is that OK with you?
> 
> Cheers,

The wiki page at <http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/nautilus_vs_gnome-volume-
manager> was created to track the overlap between nautlius and g-v-m for 
GNOME 2.22. So it might be helpful here too. :)



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