Bug#495632: gnome: I can't get rhythmbox to not open when plugging in my MP3 player

[Sam Morris]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:36 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 07:35 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>   
>>> It seems that no matter what the settings in
>>> System->Preferences->Removable media are Rhythmbox still is started
>>> when I plug in my MP3 player.
>>>     
>>>     
>> Are you using Nautilus 2.22? In that case mounting and launching of
>> Rhythmbox needs to be disabled from the File Management preferences, it
>> pretty much supercede the functionality of gnome-volume-manager.
>>   
>>   
> Ah, yes indeed.  How utterly confusing though, keeping the well-known
> configuration options in the old place that now do (seemingly) nothing,
> while a new set of configuration options, in the file browser of all
> places, is added.
> 
> Hopefully this is ironed out in future releases of Gnome...

It's somewhat improved in more recent versions. gnome-volume-manager 
2.22.5 (currently only available from pkg-utopia svn) removes a lot of 
the overlapping functionality. If you are using nautilus 2.22 then I 
strongly recommend using gnome-volume-manager 2.22.5 as well.

> 
> /M

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