Re: the future of GNOME Applets



I happen to be in complete agreeance with J5...

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:44 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> 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.

Out of interest, does having the volumes on the desktop help at all?
gnome-volume-manager will automagically mount your CD, then you can
unmount it via the desktop (sure, my Eject doesn't actually eject
anymore, but that's a different issue).

I think this allows more a much less broken design then the diskmount
applet. The only situation this doesn't cover is the floppy drive, but
people have to navigate to the floppy drive to use it anyway (unless
they have some newfangled usb floppy drive that sends them media
insertion events).

If we were to rewrite the diskmount applet (I don't want to). I think it
would be best to use gnome-vfs-volume-monitor to handle
mounting/unmounting/displaying/etc. the same way as it's handled in
computer:// and on the Desktop. Another big thing would be using the
theme's icons for the devices (I think the icons it uses now came from
October GNOME, it wouldn't surprise me).

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