cdrom

[HOEFFNER dcmir med umn edu]

Hi

I'm running gnome on RedHat6.2 and have a couple of things I'd like to ask
about.

First, the cdrom is being a little on the annoying side. I read a thread that
is now a little over a year old about the icon disappearing. Personally, I'd
like to have it there all the time, just like the floppy and zip drive icons.
If it can't mount when you try, fine, let it fail the way the others do. The
automount feature is handy, and I'm sure my users would prefer it to be
"justlike a mac" in that respect, but I'd like to see the icon there at all
times.

In the archive, it said remove magicdev. If I do this and decide to bring it
back, does anyone know if all will return to normal or will something else go
astray and never work the same again?

Is there a way to get the floppy and zip drives to automount also?

Of greater annoyance is when the cdrom mounts, it adds a few devices to the
desktop. Seems like it's anything in fstab that's user mountable (Our machines
have an "exchange" vfat partition that mounts when the user logs into the
console). I already have an icon for this as a regular directory, but I get
another looking like a device which will allow the drive to be mounted and
unmounted (a behaviour I don't want) by the user. This one makes me feel the
heavy hand of Bill Gates :(  Is this as unavoidable as he is?

Another thing I'd like to be able to do is have the menu for the zip and floppy
drives include a format option. It could do the usual warnings and all, but it
would be nice to have. For instance, all the mkfs.* files could generate an
option on a submenu. For us, I'd like to have the option to format it as vfat
so the other side of the dual boot could also read them. Of course, ext2 also.

If the present release doesn't do what I'm looking for, I'm not above hacking
this stuff in, though I have to admit I haven't been using gnome all that long
yet and so would need a little guidance!

As a completely different suggestion, I'd like to mention the omission (at
least I don't have it) of gnome-terminal in the man pages. I found --help quite
by accident. Even a manpage that contained that would've been helpful.

Just to try and balance this message out, I'd also like to say I do really like
the interface. So does my boss, a devout macuser. This was quite surprising. I
guess the part I like the best is that if you don't like something, you can do
something about it.

Thanks mucho!

Ed Hoeffner
1-271 BSBE
312 Church St. SE
Mpls, MN 55455
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