Re: [Nautilus-list] Bug #42825, IDE device names in hardware view....

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:31, Glen Gray wrote:
> Seems most of the votes are leaning toward "dismemberment". 
> 
> However I would agree that this could be a really nice feature/view if
> maintained and enhanced a little. I certainly would love to give it a
> go. It would be a good place for me to get my bearings with Nautilus.
> However I don't want to waste my efforts if it's not going to be in the
> longterm feature list.
> 
> To sum up, as the Hardware View stands, it's useless. You have to type
> in the URI to get to it and it only displays a small amount of info. 
> If maintained and updated it could be a lovely feature (I felt all warm
> when I first saw the view when Nautilus went public). I'm prepared to
> take it on if the community isn't quite ready to give up on it.

You could always start working on an enhanced one for 2.2. I kind of
like the idea of having a graphical read-only interface that would tell
me, for instance, which of the 5325 (at last count) entries in /dev
actually refer to real devices in use... :)