Re: Some bug reports and usability issues with GWorkspace.app

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

Hi Enrico,

> The "mtab" file was used only to individuate mount points to show 
> them as 
> disks on the desktop. Now this has changed; on linux GWorkspace uses 
> getmntent(), on FreeBSD the output of "mount -p" and on darwin 
> getmntinfo(). 
> If the system is not detected or something goes wrong, an empty 
> NSArray is 
> returned.
FreeBSD also has the getmntinfo() call:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getmntinfo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html

> I was forgetting that there is a rule for the paths accepted by the 
> viewer 
> shelf!
> A shelf accepts only paths that are subpaths of the path at which the 
> viewer 
> is rooted. This is needed because clicking on a shelf icon sets the 
> selection 
> in the viewer; a viewer rooted, for example, at "/usr/local" must not 
> show 
> "/home/enrico"!
Thanks for cluing me in, I thought something was horribly broken >_>.. 
This should be mentioned in the GW guide.