[Gap-dev-discuss] hot plug storage

[Heikki Lindholm]

Hello list,

After over a decade of not having used it, I decided to see how would 
GNUstep suit one's desktop needs these days. So I quickly set it up from 
FreeBSD ports (WDM, WindowMaker, all the GNUStep ports I could find). As 
a desktop system, I'm seeing quite a few omissions compared to recent 
GNOME or others.

I'll start off with one of the most basic ones that comes to mind: (USB 
/ CD-ROM) storage hot plugging and automounting as implemented on other 
desktops via udisks, hal, thunar-volman, etc. Is there anything like 
that in GNUstep or GAP or GWorkspace? The most natural way of 
implementing it would seem to be wrapping udisks/hal inside a copy of 
Apple's DiskArbitration API.

I haven't yet checked out the latest source code, or verified how old 
the versions FreeBSD ports provides are, so maybe many of the omissions 
I see are not relevant anymore, or implemented somewhere else, such as 
Etoile(?)

Best Regards,
Heikki Lindholm