From kde-usability  Sun Jul 21 17:55:25 2002
From: Christoph Held <c-held () web ! de>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:55:25 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Mounting Media
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102727602611222

On Sunday 21 July 2002 17:05, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Christoph Held schrieb:
> > On Saturday 20 July 2002 20:51, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > Christoph Held wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 20 July 2002 15:43, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > >
> > > Unless someone improves it.
> >
> > Yup but you will need the magic wand. Otherwise, it will never be
> > possible to drop and drag files onto cdrw drives and it will never be
> > possible to prevent loosing data, just to name two. Its a ill concept=
=2E
>
> Pardon, I don't get it. Where is the "ill" in the concept?

 e.g. floppy:/ vs mounting. With floppy:/ joe user just can't do anything=
=20
wrong. joe user could select floppy from the file dialog type the filenam=
e -=20
done. It's just perfect.  With mounting there is so much that can go wron=
g.=20
joe user might not find the mounting points, he might get lost in the roo=
t=20
dir, he might try to unmount but has left a directory of the media open, =
he=20
might not unmount at all. But I am lacking technical understanding -maby=20
somone is doing miracles.
BTW: I am ashamed to tell the truth (really no joke). When I first starte=
d to=20
use a sun workstation, I used I knife to eject cdroms...=20


> How can I save from openoffice to konqueror? Or Gimp? No, don't tell me
> to save to my home directory, then move it within konqueror...

yeaa, that's what I had in mind :o)


> Yes. But where there is both access by kio-slaves and mounting by os
> there should be only access by the os' vfs.
>
> > automount). But the data loosing file dialog would only be a non-kde
> > feature.
>
> I must have missed something: please, what data loosing file dialog?
> When is it shown?

:-) mount /mnt/floppy, copy a file and eject (without unmount). AFAIK the=
 file=20
is not on the floppy, but I admit I have never tried... If you use floppy=
:/=20
that can't happen, I guess.
>
Anyway, you have won since there isn't any code that supports the io slav=
e=20
concept ;-) Also joe's are not the typical users of kde. So it doesn't re=
ally=20
matter.

Greetings

Christoph

> _______________________________________________
> kde-usability mailing list
> kde-usability@mail.kde.org
> http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability

_______________________________________________
kde-usability mailing list
kde-usability@mail.kde.org
http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability