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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: device-automounter moved to kdereview
From:       Trever Fischer <tdfischer () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2009-11-03 1:15:20
Message-ID: 200911022015.34269.tdfischer () fedoraproject ! org
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On Monday 02 November 2009 6:45:18 pm Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> On Monday 02 November 2009 23:56:14 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > > So you /don't / have to use UDIs (unless you're manually adding to the
> > > list) to use the feature.
> >
> > I believe we need to get rid of the UDIs and provide some more not just
> > user-friendly, but "human-friendly" strings.. Having to deal with them
> > even in some cases is not really acceptable. I'll try to have a look into
> > this to see how we can sort this out
> 
> Just quickly playing with the solid minibrowser I have a few suggestions
> 
> First of all, show whichever icon solids give to the device, it really
>  really helps to figure out what we are talking about even before we start
>  reading.
> 
> The volume property info.product is quite uninformative (usually
>  Volume(ext3)), but if you jump back to the closest relative which has a
>  info.product property you will find quite interesting things, such as
>  ExpressCard, or stuff like that.
> 
> Then I'd compose a string with the following field (with parent I mean the
>  closest device in the hierarchy which has the infos required)
> 
> parent.info.vendor parent.info.product volume.info.product (size)
> Some real-life examples:
> 
> Seagate FreeAgent Go Backup_HD (160 Go)
> ST325082 0A MediaHD (250 Go)
> Lexar ExpressCard ssdhome (5 Go)
> Lexar ExpressCard ssdroot (3 Go)
> SD02G Volume (ext3) (2 Go) (with SD icon)
> Kingston FCR-HS219/1 MicroSD (2 Go) (I'm cheating here... MicroSD is the
>  volume label)
> 
> Still, as you can see there's room for improvement, in particular the
>  second guy was giving quite debatable information about itself (however
>  still better than /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_ECBF_30CC)
> 
Nonetheless a good idea. I added it to the GUI.
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Trever Fischer (tdfischer)
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