Re: Lack of transparency of automatic actions
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:57:37PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:18:01AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > But worse -- what if you're not using Gnome or KDE? I can find no way
> > for a user that doesn't use any X applications to take advantage of this
> > automatic support, even if the user is in the plugdev group. I can't
> > even find a way for a user to take advantage of it manually, again even
> > if the user is in plugdev. Why are we restricing this to users of GUIs?
>
> what about the CLI utility "pmount"? I am using it regularly, as I am neither
> using KDE nor GNOME, and it does its job (I am able to mount removable
> devices as long as I am in the plugdev group).
OK, that does look like it would address CLI people getting these
features. It doesn't address the network features or the permissions
issues though.
-- John
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