Bug#583631: [nautilus] Mount Options

[Utku Erdoğdu]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.30.1-1
Severity: normal

When automounting of USB stricks and external disks were handled by 
gnome-volume-manager and pmount, it was possible to edit the mount 
options through nautilus (Volume tab at device properties window) or 
through gconf (setting default mount options for file system type or 
volume).

Now the automounting is handled by gvfs-mount. Volume tab is gone from 
device properties. Setting default mount options at gconf seems to have 
no effect. I could not find any man page or documentation of gvfs-mount, 
so I do not know whether configuration through gconf is not possible, or 
am I just setting wrong keys.

I believe there should be a configuration tool for mount options under 
nautilus. I think removing volume tab was Gnome project's decision. 
However this way, user loses all the flexibility. Today I tried to mount 
a VFAT USB stick without utf8=1 and I could not configure the automount 
in any way. The only solution was to manually mount it with pmount.

PS : I set the severity to normal since it seems there is no way to 
configure the options. However if it is possible to configure them 
through gconf, this could go to wishlist.

Thanks.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
500 unstable ftp.debian.org
500 unstable ftp.ca.debian.org
500 testing ftp.debian.org
500 testing ftp.ca.debian.org
500 stable ftp.debian.org
500 stable ftp.ca.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-=============
libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3) | 1.30.0-1
libc6 (>= 2.7) | 2.10.2-9
libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) | 1.8.10-4
libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78) | 0.86-1
libexempi3 (>= 2.1.0) | 2.1.1-1
libexif12 | 0.6.19-1
libgail18 (>= 1.18.0) | 2.20.1-1
libgconf2-4 (>= 2.27.0) | 2.28.1-3
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0) | 2.24.1-1
libgnome-desktop-2-17 | 2.30.0-2
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0) | 2.20.1-1
libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.6-1
libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.30) | 2.30.1-1
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0) | 1.28.0-1
libselinux1 (>= 1.32) | 2.0.94-1
libsm6 | 2:1.1.1-1
libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0) | 1.1.6-1
libx11-6 (>= 0) | 2:1.3.3-3
libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) | 2.7.7.dfsg-2
libxrender1 | 1:0.9.5-2
nautilus-data (>= 2.30) | 2.30.1-1
nautilus-data (<< 2.31) | 2.30.1-1
shared-mime-info (>= 0.50) | 0.71-1
desktop-file-utils (>= 0.7) | 0.15-2
gvfs (>= 1.3.2) | 1.6.1-1
libglib2.0-data | 2.24.1-1


Recommends (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-===========
desktop-base (>= 0.2) | 5.0.5
eject | 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7
brasero (>= 2.26) |
librsvg2-common | 2.26.3-1
synaptic | 0.63.1
app-install-data | 2010.01.31
gvfs-backends | 1.6.1-1
consolekit | 0.4.1-4


Suggests (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
eog | 2.30.1-1
evince | 2.30.1-2
OR pdf-viewer |
totem |
OR mp3-decoder |
xdg-user-dirs |
tracker |


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Utku Erdogdu
University of Calgary
Department of Computer Science
Middle East Technical University
Department of Computer Engineering