On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:48:31AM -0500, David D. Hagood wrote:
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote:
hi,
I think HAL for linux should handle the automatic mounting and autorunning it take care. So it should be a part of HAL.
my 2 cents.
I strongly DISAGREE - as others have pointed out, the auto-running of CDs is a severe mis-feature of Windows, one which we should NOT duplicate.
Now, I could agree with the idea of a program that, upon receiving a DBUS notification of a CD insertion, looked to see if there was an autorun.inf file, and then *asked the user what to do*. IF the user then said "Yes, please run this disk" then the program would parse the autorun.inf file.
Ideally, such a program would also maintain a database of CDs already seen, and would allow the user to define an action for the CD that would happen automatically - an action that may have NOTHING to do with the CD itself. But the default action, for CDs never before seen should be "ask the user".
cd programs/explorer/ vi hal.c
Ciao, Marcus