Re: difficulties

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 11:55, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Really, tho, what *is* wrong with gfloppy?  I'm looking at it right
> > now, and I don't see what could be done any better - you select the
> > density(defaults to standard floppy), pick the FS you want (default to
> > ext2 - maybe that should be msdos for file-sharing interests?), and
> > hit format.  Anything more would be overkill, and I don't see how the
> > layout is in any way unintuitive.
> its not that it is unituitive.... its more than so much more could be
> done with it... i mean, it uses mtools, but it could also use
> /sbin/mkfs.vfat as well and it just does standrad 750K and 1.44MB disks,
> where it could (with a few simple extra menu options) make larger disks
> and therefore be much more adaptable adn a better tool!

Maybe if you file bug reports on bugzilla.gnome.org the developers will
know what the users want.  ^,^

> 
> its really not that big of a deal, but it is kind of annoying that
> simple expansions like this are never taken advantage of, and most
> development effort seems to be put into overkilled API and configuration
> options
> 
> thanks in advance
> Sam
> -- 
> "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
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