Hi, I'm looking at this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321320
Right now we have four places where the user can see drives/volumes: 1. The file chooser shows all user-visible drives, and all user-visible volumes with no associated drives. 2. The computer:/// method does the same as (1) 3. The desktop shows only user-visible modules (so e.g. you don't get a floppy icon for unmounted floppies). 4. The Places sidebar in Nautilus does the same as (3). The most visible inconsistency is (1) vs. (4). Also, (1) sucks when you plug in an USB multicard reader, since you get several entries of "SanDisk Card Reader". Let's say we follow a policy of showing only user-visible volumes, like in (3) and (4). In the magical world of HAL, gnome-volume-manager, and friends, everything works perfectly *except* for floppies: when you put in a floppy in your drive, you don't get an icon because there is no notification from the hardware. Yes, mango-stained floppies are still widely used over here in the third world :) So I think we should only show user-visible modules, like in (3) and (4), and have a special case for floppy drives in that we always show them. If this makes sense, my next question is how to detect whether a GnomeVFSDrive is a floppy drive. There's a GnomeVFSDeviceType enumeration, but you can only get that for a GnomeVFSVolume, not a GnomeVFSDrive. [It is probably fine to have computer:/// show both drives and volumes; there's no clutter since computer:/// is kind of hidden.] Thoughts? Federico -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
