I too like the behavior as it stands and see no reason to change it. Thanx, John Mizell On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:09 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > I acctually like the burn dialog. When i insert a cd, all i often want > to do, is simply dump some files from my HD to it. And then when i > insert the CD, it pops up, i drag the files i want to be burned to it, > click "burn" and "OK". Goes to make a cup of coffe (or read my mail). > > This is a 650 mhz Pentium 3 with a 4x burner. Starting "burn:///" takes > me approx one secound. And i like that it automounts and pops up a > dialog whenever i insert an removable media. All that is lacking now, is > making the "eject" button talk to dbus so that gnome would umount (or > popup errors...) > > fre, 08.10.2004 kl. 02.38 skrev Jeff Spaleta: > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:32:15 -0700, Jon Savage <jonathansavage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I hate that behavior. It is OK as a user configurable *option* but > > > makes for a poor default IMHO since more often than not I'm inserting > > > a blank cd intending to burn something using my app of choice & have > > > to wait for the silly burn:// folder to come up, > > > > Now see here's the problem... you have an application of choice... you > > know what you want. I'm not really sure defaults are meant to > > primarily address the needs of users who know which applications they > > prefer. You have a preference, the preference dialogs are there for > > you to use to set your preference. > > > > For users, who do not have a preference already, the defaults need to > > present reasonable sane and intutive behavior. Users who do not have a > > preference, are not informed enough to use the preference dialog to > > customizes their environment, the defaults need to provide reasonable > > functionality without demanding users to make a choice or state a > > preference. > > > > A poor default for me, as a competent, well informed and technically > > inclined power user with years of linux experience could easily be the > > best, most sane and intuitive default for an inexperienced user who is > > unfamiliar with specific linux applications. I know enough to > > reconfigure my system better for my needs, and my knowledge empowers > > me to use the tools at hand to mold the environment to my will. It's > > an absolutely trivial burden for me to go to the preference dialog and > > turn off the automounting/autobrowsing features of the volume > > management and I'm sure its an absolutely trivial burden for you as > > well. If having automounting and autobrowsing of media on by default > > makes the system more approachable and easier to work with for a new > > user and empowers them to use the system more fully and more often, > > I'm all for it even though i have absolutely no desire to ever use > > that feature for myself. > > > > -jef >
