[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] stop empty floppy drive announcement
From:       Basil Chupin <blchupin () iinet ! net ! au>
Date:       2013-11-13 7:58:43
Message-ID: 52833133.3000003 () iinet ! net ! au
[Download RAW message or body]

On 13/11/13 18:04, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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.

I'll go along with this.

I don't know if people realise this but vinyl LPs are back in vogue.

No joke. There is a company here in Australia which cannot keep up with 
the demand for vinyl LPs and is pressing them at a furious rate.

I didn't know about this until very recently but some moths ago I bought 
a turntable (for $A50) which will play all the old vinyls/records [33 
1/3, 45, 78 ) and output using a USB port. I can now record all my 
vinyls/records  I have sitting in "storage" and edit them using Audacity.

So don't knock floppies.

They are natural when you get older.

BC

-- 
Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with-
AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor
16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM
Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU


-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org
To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]