Re: D-BUS, anyone?

[Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxx>]

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> on my wife's laptop, and if you insert a CD or a memory stick or
> a digital camera or whatever, it "just works" -- an icon pops up on 
> the desktop and you can look at the contents, drag and drop etc
> (with either gnome or KDE).  This sort of thing is really needed for
> non-techie users, but even I find it pretty convenient.

Something like that has been done, for example on FreeSBIE livecd of 
FreeBSD (using devd(8) IIRC). But there's a major problem when devices 
get disconnected (i.e.: the device gets pulled from under the mounted 
filesystem). AFAIK, this problem was considered too complex to deal at 
this time because it involved re-architecting portions of VFS. It would 
be interesting to see if DFly can do it...