Bug#433836: current heuristics for showing volume icons

[Jamin W. Collins]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.14.3-11+b1

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I think it would be more valuable to improve the heuristics that
> determine whether a specific volume should be displayed or not. Feel
> free to open bugs about volumes that are displayed with no usefulness
> for the user.

Short of digging through the nautilus code are these heuristics 
documented anywhere?  Better yet, are they adjustable?

I routinely create a separate partition for my logs (/var/log), this is 
frequently appears on the desktops for my users. 

As far as I can tell, the current state is an all or nothing switch to 
either display all volume icons that fail some (currently unknown) 
filtering heuristic or display no drive icons. 

The display of volume icons is useful for removable media (such as those 
items mounted via pmount), but not so useful for more permanently 
attached volumes (such as additional partitions of the local hard drive(s)).

-- 
Jamin W. Collins