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Bug 522918 - It should be possible to configure the default path of mounted volumes
It should be possible to configure the default path of mounted volumes
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-17 11:03 UTC by Lionel Dricot
Modified: 2012-10-26 19:07 UTC
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Description Lionel Dricot 2008-03-17 11:03:57 UTC 
A lot of users are using mounted volumes only for a specific use.

It should be possible to configure the default path displayed when you click on the icon of a mounted volume on your desktop.

Use cases include :

- Directly accessing the upload folder of your web hosting provider
- Directly accessing a specific share of a samba computer
- Directly accessing pictures on a camera where pictures are deeply burried in the file system.
- Directly accessing your personnal folder on an "Another OS" partition.

The goal of this feature is to give back some usefulness to the icons displayed on the desktop, which should be the most useful icons and not some direct link to place you never use.
Comment 1 Scott Ritchie 2008-07-26 19:32:37 UTC 
Agreed, huge usability issue.  Why is it that when I create a bookmark for scott@server/home/scott, and then click that icon to open the bookmark, the icon that appears on my desktop is secretly a direction to scott@server/


This is even worse since it makes me THINK the folder on the desktop is actually in /home/scott as it opens a folder there when I make the link.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-07-20 16:07:12 UTC 
Mass component change due to BZ cleanup, sorry for the noise.
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-10-26 19:07:04 UTC 
This is largely obsolete, since we don't have permanent remote mounts on the desktop anymore, and bug 522917 is fixed.

The other parts are handled by Disks nowadays, see http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/03/simpler-faster-better.html and http://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/tree/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt

I'm going to close this as obsolete now. For more specific problems with how the current Nautilus handles mounts and remote shares, please feel free to open new bug reports.