Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Offline mode and mount/unmount (TODOandBUGS.txt)

[Daniele F. <df...@gm...>]

2006/3/30, Jorg Schuler wrote:

> Thanks for your participation!

my plesaure!

> Any thoughts about scratching online/offline altogether?

Editing playlists and all track properties while offline is very
useful, but keeping an exact copy of the contents of the iPod is just
a waste of hard disk space, it's not a backup because a real backup
should be hard to modify, to protect from mistakes, and kept on a
different unit than the original data, to protect from hardware
failures (it would be nice to have not only the latest version of the
data, too)

I used offline mode to confirm that gtkpod was freezing at random when sync=
ing
because of a faulty USB hub; I could have done 'tail
/var/log/messages' to see that the iPod got disconnected but a normal
user couldn't.

Offline mode could be useful to new users to test drive the program,
but they could just use a temporary directory instead of /mnt/ipod


I have done some tests re mount/unmount when going online/offline but
I'm not satisfied with my results and I give up. Now I think that the
manual mount/umount should be done outside of gtkpod: I see no need to
duplicate the functions of the applets provided by desktop managers;
I'll keep a copy of the 3 files I modified, just in case

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Ciao,
Daniele