Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:22:57 -0500 | From | "Michael T. Babcock" <> | Subject | Removable media |
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Just a note re: Floppies / CDs / other removable media:
This would require some cooperation between UI and Kernel people, but here's the idea:
Have a Linux dev-type directory for removable media, indicated by type (a directory) and serial number (as a file). The file could store last used date, file contents information (cache), etc.
This would make it possible then to have a UI object for keeping track of multiple removable disks, etc. like the old-time Mac behaviour of shadows of floppies on the screen. Personally, I'd want this in its own window (like my happy minimized-app-icon window in Enlightenment 0.16).
This would be a little better than automount as the devices could be considered 'always' mounted in a 'virtual file' sense, and have actions cached until the media was present.
Ideas? (please post responses to BOTH lists if possible). -- _____/~-=##=-~\_____ -=+0+=-< Michael T. Babcock >-=+0+=- ~~~~~\_-=##=-_/~~~~~ http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/ ICQ: 4835018
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