Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

I've found this problem with audio CDs. (not quite the same situation)
Both the panel CD player and the gnome cd player lock the CD-rom eject
button so I can only use the software eject button. What happens if I have
both of these cdplayers opened is the eject button on neither of them
works. I assume this is because each will only let the cd-rom eject when
it says so, but because I can't hit the eject button on both programs
simulaniously, I can't eject without closing one of 'em. I've been meaning
to mention this. I don't see why any audio cd player should be locking the
drive. When I hit the hardware eject button that must mean I want to stop
the song... duah.

--Ben

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Richard Ekle wrote:

> One problem I've had at times is that my CD-ROM drive gets stuck closed and 
> I can't open it even if it's not mounted!  (And it's not the CDROM itself 
> because it never does this in Windows).  Any ideas as to what may be causing 
> this?
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Thomas Hedler <thomas.hedler@fen.baynet.de>
> >Reply-To: thomas.hedler@fen.baynet.de
> >To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> >Subject: Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
> >Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:02:04 +0200 (MEST)
> >
> >On 06-Aug-99 Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> > > One other anoying thing is that you can't eject the CD with the
> > > button on
> > > the CDROM. and you can't eject the floppy with the physical eject
> > > button
> > > withought unmounting it first else the computer complians :-)
> > > --Ben
> >
> >Where is the problem? If Windows accesses the CDROM and you open the
> >eject button, you would get a blue screen. If you press <ESC> or
> ><retry> it sometimes crashes completely. Do you really want this? ;-)
> >
> >Only because windows has this behaviour it needn't to be a good
> >behaviour!!!
> >
> >The users have to learn some things. If they don't want to learn
> >something they should use windows or better buy a Mac.
> >
> >Thomas
> >
> > > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:19:51AM -0500,
> > >> James M. Cape <jcape@jcinteractive.com> wrote:
> > >> > Matthias Warkus wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > There's nothing wrong about mounting and umounting media.
> > >> >
> > >> > And there is also nothing wrong with providing a UI to configure
> > >> > the
> > >> > system to do it automatically.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I don't see what all the complaining about mounting is about. I'm
> > >> running
> > >> Debian 2.1 with the official Debian GNOME packages, and when I
> > >> double-click
> > >> the cd icon on the desktop it automatically mounts it and then
> > >> opens up
> > >> a MC window. To umount you can choose "Unmount" or "Eject" from
> > >> its context
> > >> menu. Seems to me that it can't get any simpler than that.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com
> > >>
> > >> "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an
> > >> abyss.
> > >>  A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous
> > >>  looking-back,
> > >>  a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
> > >>  --Friedrich Nietzsche
> > >>
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