Re: Make an un-device?

[Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>]

tom wrote:
 > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:07:52 -0400
 > David Zeuthen wrote:
 > 
 > > One way to make such annoying drives disappear in GNOME and some other
 > > desktop environments is to set the UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE (or if you
 > > are on an older distro than F13 vintage, it's called
 > > DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE) udev property like e.g. this
 > 
 > Yea, I found that, but it has already changed three times now
 > (first you used hal, then you used DKD, now you use UDISK).
 > I figured a lower level eradication might stick through
 > more changes :-).

in addition, the wouldn't the solution then apply to "all" desktops,
instead of "GNOME and some other" desktops?

given how often this comes up, i think it would be very useful
for there to be a page fully describing the reasons that the udev
project thinks the feature is a bad idea.  when i asked in
november for the reasons behind not being able to hide devices, i
got somewhat vague reasons.  (and i'm clearly still not
convinced. :-)  simply stating "suppressing events at the udev
level is wrong" isn't terribly compelling.

paul

 > 
 > Having some user configurable way to utterly hide devices
 > does seem useful. I recall having a "helpful" operating
 > system "upgrade" all the partitions on a disk once, thus
 > rendering it utterly useless in the multi-boot environment
 > that could boot older kernels.
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 paul fox, pgf@laptop.org