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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [despammed] Re: autorun?!
From:       Martin Koller <m.koller () surfeu ! at>
Date:       2003-08-24 16:18:47
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On Sunday 24 August 2003 17:51, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Friday 22 August 2003 06:21, David Johnson wrote:
> > Here's a compromise between the Windows we-know-what-you-want and the
> > UNIX the-user-is-in-charge worlds: when some new media is detected,
> > merely place some icons on the desktop or panel. Then the user can
> > click an icon if they want to access it. For example, inserting an
> > audio CD with a data track could put up icons for kscd, audiocd:, and a
> > data folder.
>
> Hey, that would be cool. (Of course, it could coexist with the other two
> options.) It would be just what I would like --- couple it with a cool
> animation, and it's a killer idea! :-D

My personal desktop usually is not visible, because overlapped by a lot of 
open apps - so adding icons to the desktop is not a good option.
And also, when you insert a CD, this is normally a temporary action, so why 
would you like to have icons on the desktop, which normally should remain 
there?

>
> Personally I hate the dialog pop-up syndrome --- Especially from
> applications that do not have focus. E.g., while writing some algorithm
> KMail pops up an dialog stating that my mail server has disconnected. Quite
> annoying. Dialogs should only grab focus when they are a direct consequence
> of a user action, e.g. Setting->Preferences yields a preference dialog,
> which should grab focus.

I also hate those popups, but: When inserting a CD, you do something where you 
want the system to react in a special way.
The autorun dialog will appear immediately after closing the CD tray - not 
somewhere in time unexpectetly.

- -- 
Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin

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