Re: [PATCH] right-click menu on volume: "Play DVD/Play CD"



On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:33 +0200, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> Corey Burger wrote:
> 
> >Is there a good reason not to have the cd/dvd play on a double left
> >click? I notice that OS X does the same thing as nautilus (show the
> >files on the dvd, with no option to play the cd/dvd). I personally
> >think that this is a logical activty that users are likely to do and
> >and not understand why it doesn't work.
> >  
> >
> Well, I was thinking, nautilus is a browser, let's be consistent, let's 
> make it browse. But it's arguable, that's why i said it's still open. If 
> it should play the media on the left click, then maybe we need a 
> right-click "browse".
> Note that left-click on a DVD will browse the files, and for an audio 
> CD, you get the cdda:// gnome-vfs url (but on my computer it's very slow 
> to show up and is probably a "deprecated" UI compared to eg soundjuicer 
> or the cd player).

Thats because your using a distro that decided to enable the broken cdda
gnome-vfs module. On e.g. fedora what happens is that the cd player is
registered to handle cdda: uris, so the cd starts playing.

We could do something similar with dvds.

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