From kde-artists  Thu May 27 13:08:48 1999
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:08:48 +0000
To: kde-artists
Subject: Autodetect for filesystem icons (was RE: )
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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> 
> > > I think we should take an autoprobe approach regarding cdroms and floppy.
> > 
> > Hmm... it could be done by a script that parses /etc/fstab and looks for
> > the filesystem types "iso9660", "vfat", "msdos", etc.
> > 
> > But this would only work on Linux I fear.  Well, OTOH, it would be possible to
> > create a list of systems and the file system names that shall be scanned for.
> > 
> > Hmm.... still possible....
> 
> Well, the script could test via uname for Linux and can easily be expanded
> for other OSs.
> 
> What is the current policy? Can I expect a working perl?

I tend to say yes if it is easier to program in this case.
At least on Linux you can expect it IMO .... hmm ....

Well, it *is* possible that perl is not installed, esp. on a low-level-user only
machine (in contrast to a developer's machine wich has probably all the
development tools).

--Stefan