On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:23 -0700, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > 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.
True, but at the same time it would be a process of elimination - if it doesn't work with the first option, they'll pull it out and when the dialogue appeared again, would choose the other one. Even with Data/Audio, it doens't work properly on Solaris - for instance, one of the cd's I have, it doesn't properly detect the size of the data side of the cd resulting when ripping the last track there is either an error or a huge silence after the song has finished. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
