"Archive mounter" should have better name

[Endolith]

Binary package hint: gvfs

Currently you can right-click on an ISO and select "Open with..." --> "Archive Mounter". This isn't a very user-friendly name.

When it is added as a default option, it should be renamed to something like

"Mount as drive" (or "Mount ISO as drive"/"Mount .tar.gz as drive")
"Mount this image"

or something even better.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

agreed the name tend to confuse.

[randomubuntuguy (john4lists)]

It took forever to find out how to backup my dvds to iso images. Finally, I found k9copy. But the next problem I had was how to mount them as if they were a real dvd. It would make sense to have a right click menu option "mount disc image" or "Load image as virtual disc". I realize some players can play from a file but many can not and most of the transcoder or recompression programs I've found require a dvd drive or access to the dvd directory structure.

I spend two days researching and working with different applications to get this far and none of it was intuitive.

I can do it manually and with a script I found but that is kind of a pain.

At the minimum it would be nice to have a right click access to add and run scripts pointing to a location with commonly used scripts. (I think OS X has 'folder actions' which would be helpful)

[Vincent (vinnl)]

@randomubuntuguy - since this bug is also marked for Thunar, I suppose I'll mention this: in Thunar, you can provide right click access to run scripts. See Edit->Configure Custom Actions.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I'm closing the Thunar task. It would be better to open a separate bug report for that, rather than adding the task without leaving any comment.

[randomubuntuguy (john4lists)]

Vincent wrote:
> @randomubuntuguy - since this bug is also marked for Thunar, I suppose
> I'll mention this: in Thunar, you can provide right click access to run
> scripts. See Edit->Configure Custom Actions.
>
>
thanks Vincent, its not a bug but a feature request. I realize the
mission of thunar or xubuntu is to stay lean and mean.

I guess I was just hoping it would be simpler. I can't get the scripts
I found to work in the custom actions dialogue although I did figure out
how to associate the right click action with iso images.

I will have to study up later and figure out how xubuntu is able to show
the dvd icon on the desktop and even mount it with a right click....or
maybe that was a script I added. It seems like I could copy that same
script but make it apply to .isos rather than dvdrom...

I just want to set up a two click system where I can load a DVD disc
causing a menu to pop up and ask me if I want to image it to my DVD
storage directory. Then once its imaged, I'd like to be able to double
click on he dvd .iso files and have it mount or whatever is needed and
automatically launch the player. I thought the iso format was the
closest to looking just like the dvd and therefore could be played in
any player by mounting it as a virtual disc like I do with Daemon Tools
in windows.

It may not be a common thing people like to do.... I don't know.

Thanks anyway though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is similar to bug #15495

[A. Walton (awalton)]

The desktop file that contains that name is a part of GVFS, not Nautilus.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Agreed with seb, this is probably a dupe of bug #15495, or at least both bugs need to be fixed the same way.

A design decision also needs to be made about what phrase to actually change it *to*. "Mount ISO as drive" sounds reasonable to me, but I don't know if people will grok "ISO" or "drive". Maybe "Mount disc image as folder" or some such would be better. Anyway, this probably needs some usability design thought first.

[Endolith (endolith)]

"Mount disc image" is probably an improvement. Is there a more familiar synonym for "mount"?

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bryce
Harrington<email address hidden> wrote:
> A design decision also needs to be made about what phrase to actually
> change it *to*.  "Mount ISO as drive" sounds reasonable to me, but I
> don't know if people will grok "ISO" or "drive".  Maybe "Mount disc
> image as folder" or some such would be better.  Anyway, this probably
> needs some usability design thought first.

"ISO" and "drive" do seem potentially confusing, but I like your idea
of "Mount disc image as folder". However, since it is a context menu,
I'm not sure if we need to give the thing you have just clicked on a
name as the context was already defined by the user's action, "this
file". What about just "Mount as folder"?

[superfly (superfly)]

Just a suggestion:

"Load CD/DVD Virtually"

After the image is mounted have nautilus open the folder

[Vish (vish)]

How about a simplistic>
"View CD/DVD image contents"
"View Contents as a folder"
"View Contents"

But none of these nor the above suggestions work with the 'Open with' context menu,
Maybe>
Open With "Content Viewer"
Open With "File Viewer"

And since upstream has renamed all "Unmount" to "Eject" [except for partitions]
not using 'Mount' is ideal.

Another issue is, the Archive mounter *doesnt auto-open nautilus* with the mounted image.
User has to open the mounted image from the desktop.

Ideal behavior would be to auto-open the mounted image in nautilus.

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

@A. Walton:

> dlocate -S /usr/share/applications/mount-archive.desktop
nautilus: /usr/share/applications/mount-archive.desktop

It is packaged as part of nautilus [checked on Karmic].
It execs "gvfsd-archive file=%s" to do the work, which is packaged in gvfs-backeds:

> dlocate /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-archive
gvfs-backends: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-archive

@mac_v:

The bug you mention is #296585.