Re: Volume handling proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 19:01, iain wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:43, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:39, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:40, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure what roots we want in the fileselector. At the minimum we
> > > > want the desktop ones, but do we want e.g. unmounted floppies/CDs there?
> > > 
> > > IMHO definately yes.
> > 
> > It's a yes, but *only* for floppies, because they suck, and we can't
> > detect when they're inserted. Everything else we can detect (CDs, memory
> > sticks and whatnot).
> 
> I dunno, it might be nice to have a CD on the desktop, you click on it
> to open it and if no CD is in, then the CD tray opens and a dialog says
> "Please insert a CD"

So, my proposal handles this by only showing mounted CDs on the desktop,
to not waste space there, but show unmounted cd drives in "Computer",
where clicking on them would mount the cd.

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