Bug#354582: Nautilus does not list fstab devices in computer:///

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 01 mars 2006 à 01:40 +0100, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez a écrit :
> That's why a lot of users are switching to gnome: easy usability.
> 
> You know... Nobody want to see they drives in a place named "computer",
> that is confusing. What users want (specially newbies from windows) is
> going to /etc/fstab, look in a manual what's the difference between sda
> and hdb and all that crap, look the mountpoints, and go to that place
> using nautilus. Nautilus is crap anyway. we should replace it with bash.
> 
> I am packaging a live debian distro, a thing that tries to improve
> usability of debian for newbies. It gererates the fstab, and
> configurates all the system. But I will have to put a red advertence in
> the box "YOUR DISKS LIVE IN /MNT; YOU WINDOWS MORON". That will help.

A fixed, internal disk has nothing to do in computer:///. Full stop. End
of story. Bye bye. There's no reason for the user to see how the
filesystem is layered out and on which disks.

Now, if you want to add a symbolic link or a .desktop file on the
desktop, there are easy ways to do it.
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