From kde-devel  Thu Aug 21 16:45:49 2003
From: "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:45:49 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: autorun?!
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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 06:51 pm, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Simon Perreault wrote:
> > How about the Windows XP solution:
> >
> > 1) Detect the type of the CD (music, data, DVD, etc)
> > 2) Give choices to the user (play the music, rip it, etc.) based on the
> > type of the CD.
> > [...]
>
> Do it if you want. It may be a nice feature for some people.
>
> > 5) Have a global checkbox in KControl where the user can disable
> > autorun altogether.
>
> But please don't make it default. I hope you don't want hundreds of
> thousand people figure out how to disable it entirely only because some
> LinuxXP users are not able to do two(!) clicks to start their game.setup
> program.
>
> So 5) should be:
>
> 5) Have a global checkbox in KControl where the user can _enable_
>  autorun.
>
>    Matthias
>
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Personally, I disagree about not enabling it by default, however I can see 
the point you're making. As a comprimise could it be possible to add this 
enable/disabling to the KDE first-time wizard? Just a thought for a 
comprimise.

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