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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: device-automounter moved to kdereview
From:       Jacopo De Simoi <wilderkde () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-11-03 8:06:23
Message-ID: 200911030906.23739.wilderkde () gmail ! com
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> > 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.
> 
I committed some small fixes; moreover the icon name as well should be saved in the rc file and \
reused for disconnected devices.

@Kevin: I wonder if such a string (or an improvement of such a string) should be provided by \
                solid itself... 
               something like longDescription or detailedDescription or HumanReadableId. What \
do you think?


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