Re: Migrating GNUstep home folder to another computer

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick, hi all,


I cleaned up my patch and commited it. It works now very well for me, in 
a classic "mount/unount" environment.
Still the mount points need to be indicated so that the checks perform 
correctly, /etc/mtab is not sufficient.
It would be nice to improve that situation further.

Riccardo


Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-07-24 22:24:19 +0000 Patrick CARDONA 
> <patrick.cardona0@laposte.net> wrote:
>
>
> > It was the same behaviour. As I can understand, GWorkspace checks 
> > /etc/mtab only when it loads the desktop. So, when I use the 
> > workaround (hide and show again the desktop) this works to show the 
> > disk icon.
> > What is strange, is that when I unmount ($ udisksctl unmount -p 
> > [device_path]) the disk icon is hidden as expected : so the behaviour 
> > is dynamic with unmounting, not at mounting.
>
> your description made me suspicious and I spent several hours 
> debugging the code.
> I hope I fixed both yout and my issues.
>
> I ound an additional issue: if a volume is mounted *before* starting 
> GWorkspace it would not get recognized.
>
> If you like, try the attached patch.
> I simplified the code and hopefully fixed it. It relied on wrong 
> assumptions, I guess. I did not try it with multipme volumes (e.g, 
> cdrom, usb key, floppy..... multiple USB disks) because I just had one 
> USB device with me on travel currently.
>
> However, with this code I can mound/unomount from the command line and 
> see the device appear/disappear.
> Parallely, even i the desktop is not showing and a volume gets touched 
> or mounted before GWorkspace it works.
>
> If you want to test before me committing it, go! I did try mounting on 
> FreeBSD and not ubuntu and my SystemPreferences is setup fine to mount 
> automatically, for your information.
>
>
> Riccardo