a humble request

[Chris Rouch]

On 2/13/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 14:49 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:
> > You can still do this, but you now need to use gnome-mount rather than
> > mount.  Don't be fooled by 'gnome' in the name, this is a command line
> > application which allows the mounting and unmounting of removable media
> > in the same way as they would have been automounted interactively within
> > gnome.
>
> It might have helped if there were some documentation about that.  I see
> no man file, info file, and nothing useful for it
> in /usr/share/doc/gnome-mount*/
>
> Why do programmers insist in useless README files?  They usually have
> nothing that *needs* reading, and don't say anything about what you
> *need* to know.
>
> There's only gnome-mount --help (or --help-all).  And I'm reluctant to
> try unknown programs with a --help option, some start doing something
> other than give you help information.
>
> > It's a bit of a pain getting used to the fact that this has changed, but
> > it's no harder than the old way once you've got used to it.
>
> Well, once we know how to use it, we could alias a shorter command name
> to it.
>

It expects different arguments to umount in any case. Assuming you'd
manage to sanitise the mount point, "gnome-umount /media/cdrom" would
fail with "gnome-mount 0.5". So not only did they forget to write any
documentation, they also forgot the error messages.

If you're lucky "gnome-umount -p /media/cdrom" will succeed (also with
the message "gnome-mount 0.5"). But "gnome-umount -p /media/cdrom/"
will fail.

I'm sure gnome-mount is part of the journey to more intuative
removable media handling, but it would be nice to have a sane umount
back.

Chris