gnome-volume-manager blank CD defaults

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 19:36 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> A problem I noticed: I've set gnome-volume-manager to open k3b instead
> of burn://
> When burning 1st CD it went ok. When inserting the 2nd CD, k3b is opened
> again although it was already open. Could it check first if the
> application specified by user is already running?
> 
> Maybe this solves multiple burn:// folders too. 
> I don't know how to check in a reliable way if the application is
> already running. ps aux|grep username|grep <application> works usually,
> but it's ugly. It won't work for burn://
> 

There is locking code in hal now that an app can use to give advisory
locks on a cd device.  g-v-m respects this.  k3b needs to be updated to
set and unset these locks.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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