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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#40628: acknowledged by developer (put floppy and cdrom icons in the file dialog please)
From:       Will Styles <stashelp () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-04-30 11:30:54
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--- Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 12:38, Will Styles wrote:
> > hmm?
> > isn't it /dev/cdrom or /mnt/cdrom?
> 
> /dev/cdrom is the device. Or rather a symlink, which
> might be set or not. On 
> linux. Mountpoints could be /mnt/cdrom, /media/cdrom
> or anything else. Again, 
> on Linux. And some people even have multiple cdroms
> or a cdrom and a cdwriter 
> :} Some people use automounters, e.g. my cdrom is
> accessible as /misc/cdrom.
> 
ah, we could it make it super-configurable to handle
all these cases.
IMHO, by default, /dev/cdrom could be used and changed
if the user needs to.  Multiple cdrom drives are not
all that common and the user can add them himself.
But new users will never guess /mnt/cdrom and so needs
at least one cdrom icon.


> > it would be kind of handy to have cdrom access by
> > default
> > (some linux distros are really poor so I would
> prefer
> > it be done in kde).
> 
> Yes, it would be nice, but IMHO it should really be
> the distributor's task to 
> set this up properly.
> 
I have found that many distros just blindly compile
the
source without worrying about the quality of the RPM,
compile options or even if the software runs :(
(on several occassions, I have had major linux distros
release incredibly poorly packaged apps that did not
even have some of the most important features compiled
in or had glaring runtime errors caused by a poor
compile).

You are most probably right about this but I would
feel
safer, if by default the cdrom was there.  IMHO, we
can't
(neccessarily) leave it up to the distributors but
this is
probably just my opinion.

thanx again

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