Re: Midnight Commander 4.5.18 is out

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> * Devices
> 
>    Now you can have desktop icons that point to devices that the user
> has permission to mount.  For example, floppies and CD-ROMS that have
> the "user" option in /etc/fstab.  You can eject/mount/umount the
> devices with a single click!
> 
> 	- Double clicking on mountable devices, now mounts the device
> 	  and launches a panel on the mount point.

Doesn't really work as expected (I think):

- Desktops/Rescan Mountable Devices only yields an icon for "Floppy 0",
but fstab has the following entries:
---8<---
# removable media
/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	vfat	noauto,user,sync	0 0
/dev/scd0	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660	user,noauto	0 0
/dev/hdc	/mnt/cdrom2	iso9660	user,noauto	0 0
/dev/hdd1	/mnt/tmp	vfat	noauto,user,noexec,nosuid,nodev	0 0
---8<---

- It really doesn't work with a single click (at least not here), you
either have to double-click it, or right-select it, then Mount/Unmount.
- The right-select Mount/Unmount Option is severely broken:
  - Mount: --> "Can't find /dev/fd0=     in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab"
  - Unmount: --> "/dev/fd0B      is not mounted (according to mtab)"
  And logically -- both don't work.
- If I open the Properties dialog of the symlink on the desktop, it says
  that it pointed to /dev/fd0/dev/fd0 (instead of /dev/fd0), my shell
  shows that it (correctly) points to /dev/fd0
- The symlink on the desktop from "Desktops/Rescan Mountable Devices"
  shows up as executable instead of floppy

And more generally:

- Floppy devices in /dev show up as block devices instead of floppies
- As a convenience measure the title of a desktop icon should also be
  editable in the Properties dialog, not only by clicking on the title
  itself and editing in place

I think, that's it for the moment :-)

Nils
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