Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Mike Touloumtzis <miket geoworks com>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:42:47PM -0400, Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:30:11AM -0400,
> > Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb@admin.arhs.net> wrote:
> > > Can it be set up so that the eject button on the CDROM/zip drive unmounts
> > > and ejects the media? 
> > > 
> > > --Ben
> > > 
> > 
> > As I said in a previous post, this already happens! Selecting eject from
> > the CD's context menu unmounts and then ejects. The only problem is with
> > the floppy, because PC floppy drives support neither locking nor software
> > ejecting.
> > 
> 
> I ment the physical button on the outside of the drive.
> 

(wading through GNOME mail days later... :-)

I don't think this is possible with most CD-ROM drives.  You can't
trap the open/close button, you can only enable and disable.

miket