Re: New applet for removable media

Tony Houghton wrote:
> 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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Hmmph. Bleeding Ubuntu doesn't have packages for gdu :mad:


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