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[codewarrior <lvr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, it would be nice to hook DBus signals from devicekit.  Qt has some
nice classes to handle them and so simplify myth,.  However, devicekit
has not been around long (2008 according to wikipedia) and is also in
the process of becoming udisk.  So this doesn't provide a stable,
backward compatible solution.  For future versions of myth, using QDBus
is ideal but what exists now is the udev link.  Without these scripts
you can't read music/videos/photos off of removable media.  If you want
I can provide a patch for the

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Mythfrontend missing udev support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669809
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Triaged

Bug description:
To detect insertion & removal of media such as usb key disks and memory sticks, mythfrontend listens on the FIFO /tmp/myth-tv.  However, package installation doesn't add the required udev scripts, /etc/udev/rules.d/mythtv.rules & /etc/udev/scripts/mythtv_udev_monitor.sh.  See:

www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_Media_Monitor_udev_Configuration