Every partition has a desktop icon

[cwr]

Having (partially) upgraded to 2008.0, Gnome 2.20, I now find that every partition
on both hardrives has an automatically generated desktop icon. My guess is that
it's something to do with the default Hal or Dbus settings, but I can't find any way
to turn it off. It makes the Gnome desktop pretty useless, so someone must have
found a solution. Anyone know what it is?

Thanks - Will

[Clad in Sky]

I'd be interested as well. I only have one unwanted partition that comes up, but I don't even want that one.

[Miranda]

Save the following as /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi

[cwr]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Will

EDIT:

The gconf setting works, but the Hal script doesn't appear to. I've doubled checked
the wording, so I'm pretty sure I entered it correctly. With the gconf flag cleared
USB devices still automount and auto-open (contrary to Gnome's local desktop
settings) but don't appear on the desktop. I can't check CDs, since Gnome is
running on an HD in the CD drive bay ...

Is there any fairly clear documentation on Hal setups, preferably with examples?
All the stuff I can find is way over my head.

[juniper]

i think you have to replace "block.storage.device" with something sensible. yes, this is stupid.

[Miranda]

Hmm... That worked for me some time ago, but now I removed the script and I do not get any icons anyway.

Perhaps this will work for newer hal versions:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1023202&postcount=82

Perhaps the latest hal (or gnome) versions (~amd64/~x86) in portage doesn't have this problem at all?

[cwr]

I seem to have at least partly suppressed the problem by putting
the following two files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. I haven't worked out
exactly what HAL is doing, so there's some (a lot of?) overlap between
the two policies. However, it seems to keep the desktop uncluttered,
so I've added the files below as a basis for further tinkering.

File: 20-storage-policy-unused-partitions.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.1">
<device>
<!-- Ignore the /dev/hda partitions -->
<!-- The /dev/hdc partitions are handled by fstab -->
<match key="block.major" int="3">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

File: 50-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.1">
<device>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Will

[timeBandit]