Re: [rox-users] New applet for removable media

[Mark W. <mar...@nt...>]

Tony Houghton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:07 +0200
> Ruediger Langendorf<ru...@ma...>  wrote:
>
>> The simplest solution would be to add a check for encrytped devices in
>> check_add_presentable and ignore them completely ;) ( the check is
>> 'g_strcmp0(gdu_device_id_get_usage(dev), "crypto") == 0' ;
>> gdu_device_is_luks seems to have another meaning,.. )
>
> That would do as a temporary measure, but it should be possible to get a
> password from the user and mount it shouldn't it?
>
>> However, I've just found out that this does not only occur by encrypted
>> devices. If a partition don't contain a filesystem at all, they are
>> shown nevertheless, too. I would either ignore them (like DevTray) or
>> start a utilty like gdu-format-tool on  mouse click.
>
> I thought I couldn't find a reliable way in the API to tell whether a
> partiton contains a valid filesystem, but it looks like I can tell this
> after all by using the "type" property. That should be better than my
> current hack of excluding extended partitions by checking whether a
> device contains another device.
>
Hey Tony.

Could you maybe put a link to ROX Media on your home page?