Re: Volume handling proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:19, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:39, Julien Olivier wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that, as you can't automatically newly inserted floppies,
> > you have to display un-mounted floppies. Consequently, for consistency
> > reasons, you should also display unmounted CD/DVD drives. Or find a way
> > to auto-detect floppies...
> 
> Yeah, I guess I'm too used to the Solaris volume management daemon doing
> exactly that :)

Gnome as a system cannot even rely on this for CD/DVD. We have to run on
crap old unixes where there is not CD autodetection too. And its not
acceptable if you're totally unable to reach your CD on those systems.

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