Re: the future of GNOME Applets

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:24 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:12, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> > Merhaba,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:12 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > > Disk Mounter
> > > 	This applet looks ugly, has a confusing interface and looks like
> > > 	a bad GNOME2 port of a GNOME1 applet. Completely unmaintained.
> > > 	Almost everything it does has been replaced by g-v-m or
> > > 	computer://. Plus it doesn't work on Solaris. It would have to
> > > 	be completely rewritten to use gnome-volume-manager, although
> > > 	I'm not sure how useful it would be. I propose stopping it from
> > > 	compiling by default but not removing the code.
> > 
> > In favor of the computer:/// URI, this is not really useful for me. Can
> > be removed, IMHO.
> 
> I would agree with getting rid of the computer:/// URI. That is
> completely unintuitive. The disk mounter applet is much more useful and
> if it is considered ugly (I would disagree here) then maybe it should be
> beautified.
> > 

The mount applets are really bad in my opinion.  The only point where
unmount is unfortunately necessary these days is removable drives but
even there you are never going to have a static device node to give to
the mount applet.  Legacy floppy is another exception but any program
that makes use of the file picker will mount the drive when you navigate
to it.  And you can mount/unmount from computer:///.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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