On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:03, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:24 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > > > 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. I have never found that to be a issue on our production machines. > 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:///. Of 300 users I am dealing with on a a daily basis, virtually none was able to figure that out. We didn't have that problem when we were using the applet. Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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