The Device Notifier

[rgheck]

On 07/23/2009 03:55 PM, rgheck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a little desktop file that will allow me just to
> mount newly inserted devices, rather than to open them with Dolphin. I
> can see roughly how to do this, but have two questions:
>
> (i) Is there some local place one can put such files, instead of
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/? I've tried putting the file in
> .kde/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/, but that didn't work, and I also
> tried .kde/share/apps/solid/actions/.
>
> (ii) How on earth would one go about just mounting the device? Is there
> some call to hal or whatever that can be made?
>
>
OK, I have some answer to the latter, but it doesn't seem to work:

[rgheck at rghquad ~]$ dbus-send --system --print-reply 
--dest=org.freedesktop.Hal 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4A56_7815 
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string:"/media/disk" 
string:"vfat" array:string:""
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "Mount" with 
signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" 
doesn't exist

And yet:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4A56_7B15'
access_control.file = '/dev/sde1' (string)
access_control.type = 'removable-block' (string)
block.device = '/dev/sde1' (string)
...
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames = {'mount_point fstype 
extra_options', 'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths = 
{'hal-storage-mount', 'hal-storage-unmount', 'hal-storage-eject'} 
(string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount', 
'Eject'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures = {'ssas', 'as', 
'as'} (string list)

What have I done wrong?

rh