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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] stop empty floppy drive announcement
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2013-11-13 7:04:25
Message-ID: 52832479.8040705 () earthlink ! net
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On 2013-11-13 07:38 (GMT+0100) C composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=138424961802070&w=2
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061

>> Someone please find a realistic solution for this soon. It's a miserable
>> blight for KDE in 13.1 to begin life this way.

> I have a feeling you will struggle to find a fix for it.  As was
> stated in the thread you linked... floppies are obsolete (for many
> years) and finding someone with the knowledge AND incentive fix an

Did you read the bug? It seems to me only a little programmer help is needed 
to come up with a solution.

> issue for hopelessly obsolete hardware (even if in your use case, you
> still use them) is going to be very difficult... or more likely
> impossible.

There really shouldn't be a material difference in this problem between an 
empty BluRay drive and an empty floppy drive. Absent media, there's nothing 
to announce about either.

Regardless, device notifier ought to be able to be configured so that only 
selected device types be recognized.

At the very least, there's no reason for it to be stealing focus.

> I haven't seen a computer with a floppy drive in 5 or 6 years now...
> and now, CD/DVD drives are becoming rare... soon to be obsolete as
> well.

As long as people have floppies and CDs and DVDs they need something to 
access them. Combining DVDs, CDs and floppies, I have well over 3000, and I 
know people whose libraries are measured with 5 digits.
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