Right now I do this by an ugly kludge.
I set up the floppy disk for supermount for my users. I then go to
their desktops and rename Dos_hda1 to Windows_C.
I DELETE the floppy supermount icon and
ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/windows_brainwashed_user/Desktop/Floppy
ln -s /mnt/floppy
/home/windows_brainwashed_user/Office51/work/Floppy
The result--if the user drags a file to the Floppy icon, it copies to the floppy.
I also took mucho many blank floppies and placed them one by one into the floppy
drive, each time clicking on properties and saving the folder with a mounted floppy
icon. Finally I gimmicked ~/.bashrc
if [-n $DISPLAY] then
~/.keye_candy &
fi
and ~/.keye_candy has contents
#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]
kfmclient refreshDesktop
sleep 90
done
The result of all this ugly kludge is that the user sees a mounted floppy icon on the
desktop when one of my gimmicked floppies is in the drive, and sees a locked folder
when no floppy is there or an unlocked folder when a new floppy is there, and the
effect of dragging files to the floppy is to copy them there.
It is a small cosmetic detail except for someone who doesn't want to know how the
computer works and complains linux takes too many steps to deal with anything. My
suggestion is to code it a bit better than I have done to the same end effect.
Civileme
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