Re: Device (un)mount applet

[Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249 cam ac uk>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, John Ellis wrote:

> What about the people that don't want to use an applet such as the
> diskusage-applet? I personally don't need such an applet, and don't want
> to run it just to get some functionality on my system that can be provided by
> one that is smaller (less screen real estate). Plus I don't think a newbie is going
> to relate disk-usage to mounting of drives, even less if the function is buried
> under a menu you have to right click. An Icon that looks like a floppy drive
> is much better suited to a newbie, and once they learn the system, let them
> decide if they want to continue using the applet.

Excuse me for butting in here. Isn't this a function more suited for gmc?
Have a cdrom link on your desktop, rightclink->mount, rightclink->unmount or
even rightclick->eject? It's a very familiar concept. I've seen it on Win
and IRIX, I think.

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