New applet for removable media

Tony Houghton <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user,gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <20091017234042.431d5c17@babynappy>
I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media".
HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated, so Media uses the new
DeviceKit-disks via libgdu, part of the gnome-disk-utility project. It
can also be used in a system/status tray instead of as a ROX panel
applet so people who only use ROX to replace the file manager in another
desktop should find it useful too.

Media still needs more work before it's fit for release, but the basic
functionality is there now, so I think it's ready for alpha/beta
testing. I've set up a git repository at
git://rox.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/rox/Media and you can browse it
and download snapshot tarballs at
<http://rox.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=rox/Media;a=summary>.

To build it you need scons and development packages for gdu, gtk2
(including gdk-pixbuf) and gconf2. At the moment it uses gconf only to
get mount options, but I'll probably implement options for things like
automatic mounting at some point. It's a good idea to add "flush" to the
options for /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options (using
gconf-editor for instance).

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