Re: TotemCdSelection widget

[Joergen Scheibengruber <Joergen Scheibengruber informatik uni-ulm de>]

Am Don, 2002-12-12 um 15.14 schrieb Bastien Nocera:

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> > Looks really cool :-)
> > 
> > However, I'm not sure if all users (want to) know the technical name of
> > their cd-/dvd-rom drive. Maybe the label could show something like "DVD
> > (CD/CD-R/CD-RW/...) Drive 1 (2/3/..) (technical id)", or something like
> > that...
> 
> Not quite sure. Usually there's only one or 2 drives on the machines.
> It's pretty easy to find out which is which, and "Drive 1/2/3" is harder
> to figure out than a name.

Hmm, you're right. But I would dare to claim that most users don't know
the manufacturer of their cdrom drive. And often the technical ids (you
probably take them from /proc/ide/*), are pretty cryptical... I don't
know if it's possible to find out wether a device is a CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD
Drive other then parsing this technical id, but if it's possible, I'd
like to suggest taking "CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD Drive" as an id and maybe the
technical id in parantheses behind. The number of the device can be
ommitted, that's right, it probably doesn't provide any useful
information...

Regards,
Jörgen

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