placel plugin

[Diego Ongaro]

On 10/9/07, Jani Monoses <jani at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Diego Ongaro wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Jani Monoses <jani at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> Since it crashes on the liveCD and no time to look for the fix by
> >> release I am very much tempted to remove the places plugin from the
> >> panel by default. Since the desktop is not clean and there are folders
> >> on it, there is a way to start navigating.
> >> thoughts? (preferably by tomorrow :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Are you referring to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3453 ?
> >
> did not know about that bug, and I am not sure if it is the same issue.
> AFAIK thunar is not built with debug but that may have changed in gutsy.
> The issue I see is on the xubuntu liveCD mounting any partition
> (non-removable) causes a crash. It used to work until a while ago in the
> installed system
>
> Jani
>

Hmm...places just uses Thunar VFS calls to mount and unmount volumes.

An alternative to getting rid of the places plugin entirely would be
to disable the preference to "Show removable media".

-Diego