Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:03 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> The mountable filesystem types might not all show the same content. >>>> This is why it makes sense to mount everything. >>> Is that what the other three dominating OSes do? >> No, but do you have a better idea for a solution that also works on >> systems without GUI and server systems? >> >> IIRC, you are able to tell MS-WIN what to mount from the GUI. >> > As cringe worthy as it sounds - how about an ncurses dialogue that > appears on the screen when the cd is inserted, requesting the end user, > on detection of a hybrid cd/storage, as to which file system driver to > use?
Given a dialog saying "this disk contains filesystems in HSFS and UDF formats; which one do you want to mount?", how many users are really going to know which filesystem to select? You might as well put up a dialog saying "press here to guess". This is very different from a mixed audio/data CD where people can easily understand "do you want the data or audio part of this CD?" Now, if you want to put up a dialog with some explanatory text saying "if this is a disk from Windows/Nero, you probably want choice A; the other choices are for advanced users who know differently" then that might be different. But otherwise, presenting the user with a choice where most users won't know the right answer is not necessarily a big help. Hugh. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
