I've just written a new applet, that on click reads /etc/fstab, checks which entries are mounted in /proc/mounts, and displays the mount points and whether they are mounted or not. You can then click on a mount point to mount it.

IN the preferences you can specify which mount points not to show, and specify a command to run after successful mount. See screenshots:
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot7yf7.png

http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot9jb9.png

I find this very useful myself :) I hope it can be useful to others as well, and can be added to the extras-applets .. but i'm not familiar with that stuff or automake and makefiles and all. Could anyone tell me if you're interested in this applet and if so, how i can make it available in the right format for inclusion?

We're always interested in another applet :-)

There are a couple options...

1) Just provide the current source and it will get merged in eventually (probably quite quickly actually) once someone does the build files.

2) Look at the existing build system (Makefile.am in the applet dirs is where to start) and provide a patch against a branch. Feel free to link to it here but please also provide the patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn-extras/ My suggestion is to provide a patch against awn-testing though others might prefer one agains awn-extras trunk. Either is fine. Not they do have different build systems at this time.

Cool!! I've patched against the awn-testing-branch, and I think I've provided everything so you could just patch it and should be done. Patch is provided in https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn-extras/+bug/186785

Thanks a lot!

Thanks,

Pushed to testing.

Excellent applet. I looked at it a few times before but hadn't taken the time to see how to change the prefs to ignore mount points. Now I just have the two points I need, my CD drive and my DMP, without even a single "none". Now I don't have to keep a Nautilus window open to unmount my DMP, which earns it a place on my permanent applet list.