Re: Disappearing CDROM icon

["Collin Brown" <colbrown iname com>]

Thanks Hugo and William.

magicdev is history........
This is an example of how userfriendliness is relative. I guess this
"feature" is very natural for someone coming from a windoze background, but
for me it felt strangely like my computer was taking on a life of its own.
Generally, I do not like my computer doing things without my explicitly
telling it to.

The maintainers for this package should consider removing the icon only when
the drive is opened and not when the cd-rom is unmounted. Taking away the
icon, just to force me to open and close the drive, or go to the command
line, is not userfriendly.

Everytime my distro gets windofied just for windofying's sake, "I feel the
room closing in on me...." ;-)

Thanks Again

Collin

----- Original Message -----
From: <bill.helke@cp.Novartis.com>
To: <colbrown@iname.com>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: Disappearing CDROM icon


> Collin:
>
> I was the one who posted to the mailing list about this about a month ago.
> Magicdev is a new RedHat (RHAD?) "feature" to automount CDROMS (ala
Windoze)
> and open an appropriate associated program (i.e. GnomeRPM for the RedHat
> CDROM, or CD Player for a music CD).  It's OK, but too Windozey for me
(I'm
> a control freak).  Remove magicdev (rpm -e magicdev) and rescan your
desktop
> devices.  Then you will have a "permanent" CDROM icon again.  Removal of
> this package also removes the CD device caplet in gnome control-center.
>
> Unfortunately, this does not solve the also new feature of your system
> rescanning the desktop icons each time you mount a CD.  I am not sure
which
> program handles this and have not been able to resolve this issue.  Each
> rescan of your desktop device icons resets them to their default pixmaps
and
> labels - i.e. the stupid "Disk 1", "Disk 2", etc.  I like to have a zip
disk
> pixmap on my zip drive icon and have the drive labels customized to "zip
> drive", "win-c", "floppy", etc.  If anyone knows which package controls
this
> rescan behaviour, please post!  I'd like to try to disable it if possible.
>
> Thanks.
>
> William F. Helke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Collin Brown [mailto:colbrown@iname.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:57 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Disappearing CDROM icon
>
>
> I just upgraded to REDHAT 6.1; previously I was running Redhat 6.0 with
> October Gnome.
>
> Whenever I unmount my cdrom, or eject it via the desktop icon, the desktop
> icon for the cdrom disappears.
> To get it to reappear, I have to remount the cdrom from the command line,
or
> linuxconf.
>
> Is this some new "feature"?
> How can I get the CDROM icon to remain on the desktop regardless of the
> state of the cdrom.
>
> Collin
>
>
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