On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 16:39 +0100, Isak Savo wrote: > mån 2005-01-17 klockan 16:05 +0100 skrev Ronald S. Bultje: > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:44, Karel Demeyer wrote: > > > I read that gnome 2.10 will probably include a CD-ripping/playing > > > utility. I think such a program should not be _in_ the gnome packages, > > > though, I'd like those functionalities in gnome, but more integrated. > > > I'd like to be able to see the tracks on an audio CD in nautilus when I > > > insert one. > > > > Now, seriously, from a user point of view. Do you expect the user to > > know that Nautilus is your CD player or ripper by typing some obscure > > URI? > > Actually, from a users point of view, this could be exactly what they > expect (modulo the obscure URI thing). I had a hard time explaining for > my father (who is a OS X user) the difference between copying audio from > a CD (aka "Ripping") vs copying files from the CD (using normal file > browsing). He had to take my word for it that they are completely > different things. > > If I didn't have a clue about ripping, my first choice would be to click > on the CD icon on my desktop and just drag the files to $HOME (or > wherever). This is in fact what I did try many years ago in windows.. It > didn't work :-) What you say makes sense, and what Havoc says makes sense too. Maybe we could have both: put a 'CD Ripper' launcher in the menu, but also if a user tries to drag audio tracks from the CD drive the gnome-vfs backend would do nothing except launch S-J and automatically select source CD drive and destination folder for that session based on the URIs it receives. Somehow I feel these discussions are pointless now. Don't we have feature freeze in effect already? Regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net> The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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