Re: Volume handling proposal

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:39, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:40, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I'm not sure what roots we want in the fileselector. At the minimum we
> > want the desktop ones, but do we want e.g. unmounted floppies/CDs there?
> 
> IMHO definately yes.

It's a yes, but *only* for floppies, because they suck, and we can't
detect when they're inserted. Everything else we can detect (CDs, memory
sticks and whatnot).

> Saving a document to a floppy it's one of the rare occasions where I
> still use floppies: if I have a document open for editing and I want to
> put a copy on a floppy, the natural things for me is Save As and select
> the floppy.
> Even when the last floppy will be six feet underground, the same thing
> makes sense for things like memory sticks, etc.
> 
> About CDs and other not writable devices I'm not sure: they make sense
> for "Open", but not for "Save"...

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