On 06/15/2011 04:14 PM, Tim wrote: > Things have probably improved since I last tried (still on Fedora 9, > here). But my point was with a GUIfied system, one that's being touted > as the bees knees, and doesn't require geek/guru status to use, > everything should be do-able through the GUI, and the GUI should be > self-documenting. If one has to resort to the command line, or even > additional instructions, then the GUI design has failed. I see you snipped out all the text where I described how I figured out how todo this using only the GUI in a couple of minutes on f15. Smooth. Please give it a try once you have updated to a release that has been supported some time in recent history. I hope that it will be to your liking. > The last time I tried to do this with a DOS/FAT formatted drive, I had > to figure out how to assign a drive letter to the drive, before I could > use the DOS commands to apply a drive label (because those commands > could only make use of DOS drive letters, rather than Linux device > names). Huh?!? > I miss the way this was handled back on my Amiga. In the root of a disc > partition (or whole disk), was placed a disc.info file. Not only did it > hold various bits of info about the disc (the same as file .info files > did for their associated files or directories), it could also hold the > icon image. Giving any disc a custom icon was simply a matter of > putting a file into its root directory. Yeah I miss my Amigas too but the fact is that Commodore's leadership ensured that the platform was going to die out a long, long time ago. These days I have much more fun with my Linux boxes. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
