Description of problem: In the Desktop model, a user can rely on nautilus to provide accurate information as to which devices are available to be mounted by listing them in the Computer window. Previously, with fstab-sync a user at the cmdline could do a quick cat of /etc/fstab to see which devices and mountpoints existed as 'console owner' mountable devices. Currently with gnome-mount there is no obvious mechanism by which to discover what devices,mountpoints, UID's are mountable at the cmdline. I would appreciate it if gnome-mount could be extended so that I could run gnome-mount --list and get information as to which devices or UID's where available for mounting and what type of device they were.. similar to the information provided in nautilus's Computer window. Trying to parse lshal for this list as a seperate step is unwieldy if not impossible for an mere mortal. Or to phrase it in the form of a question. How do you expect cmdline users who will be using gnome-mount figure out which devices they can mount without resorting to trial and error? -jef
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nothing's changed in current development. gnome-mount still doesn't provide a usable 'discoverability' feature that will let non-desktop console owners what the mountable devices are as controlled by Hal. Since gnome-mount is the primary gui AND cmdline tool which is meant to be used for mounting user mountable devices as controlled through HAL, there really really needs to be a way to use gnome-mount to list which devices/mounts are mountable, instead of having to resort to lshal as a cmdline user.
This seems like something that should be moved upstream. I'll move this to devel, but really I think this should be reported with GNOME and marked closed:upstream here.
Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.
I'm going to close this as WONTFIX. Going forward, gnome-mount is being phased out in favour of gvfs-mount, which does already have a -l option