Re: TotemCdSelection widget

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:59, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> Am Don, 2002-12-12 um 13.14 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > Damn, wrong e-mail address. Please respond to this mail.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:54, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > In the current CVS (and in a slightly broken way in Totem 0.13.0), I
> > > added a CD device selection widget.
> > > 
> > > The API is very simple, and falls back to plain text entry for non-Linux
> > > systems. I plan to add a way to "filter" the drives by type (so you
> > > could choose to only show DVD drives, or Recorders, etc.) There's no
> > > gconf handling in it, it is left to the application to do that.
> > > 
> > > Shot (see in the prefs dialog):
> > > http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/07-12-2002.1.png
> > > 
> > > I'd really like the Gnome applications to use it, it would make all the
> > > applications with CD handling work out of the box.
> > > 
> > > Comments ?
> 
> Looks really cool :-)
> 
> However, I'm not sure if all users (want to) know the technical name of
> their cd-/dvd-rom drive. Maybe the label could show something like "DVD
> (CD/CD-R/CD-RW/...) Drive 1 (2/3/..) (technical id)", or something like
> that...

Not quite sure. Usually there's only one or 2 drives on the machines.
It's pretty easy to find out which is which, and "Drive 1/2/3" is harder
to figure out than a name.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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