Re: Volume handling proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:39, 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.
> 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.

It does add complexity to the fileselector though, since it needs to try
to mount floppies. I guess this could be handled though.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
He's a one-legged devious boxer for the 21st century. She's a manipulative 
kleptomaniac socialite looking for love in all the wrong places. They fight 
crime!