On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:09, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > Until FC5, I'm used to seeing no blank space character in installation CD & > DVD media's volume labels. Is there any specific reason why FC6 changed its > course? > > This one Windows idiom (as a Linux & Windows sys admin) of having blank > space character (in file name, directory name, user name, group name, > volume name etc.) is the most painful thing to deal with when scripting & > other work flow techniques are concerned. > > So the question is, why not keep it simple with the use of _ or - like > characters for CD/DVD labels? I'm sure there'll be clever ways of handling > blank space characters, but why bother with cleverness, when simple things > (KISS philosophy of unix for example) are admirable/appreciable for their > simplicity. Mostly because it was easier to read when the CD was inserted and the Volume showed up on the desktop. Its an odd site effect that gnome-volume-manager mounts in /media using the volume name. However it _does_ work, so... If there is significant request/reasons to change it back to a - or a _ I'll consider it. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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