Re: Proposal to deprecate KFloppy

2023-05-20 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El divendres, 28 d’abril de 2023, a les 15:27:35 (CEST), Heiko Becker va escriure: > On Friday, 28 April 2023 15:16:29 CEST, Nate Graham wrote: > > Does it work for *anyone* with a modern distro? If not, then I > > think archiving it makes sense. Time marches on. :) > > > > If it does work for *s

Re: Proposal to deprecate KFloppy

2023-04-28 Thread Heiko Becker
On Friday, 28 April 2023 15:16:29 CEST, Nate Graham wrote: Does it work for *anyone* with a modern distro? If not, then I think archiving it makes sense. Time marches on. :) If it does work for *someone* with a modern distro then at the very least the UI needs to detect when it will be broken

Re: Proposal to deprecate KFloppy

2023-04-28 Thread Nate Graham
Does it work for *anyone* with a modern distro? If not, then I think archiving it makes sense. Time marches on. :) If it does work for *someone* with a modern distro then at the very least the UI needs to detect when it will be broken and tell this to the user in advance to prevent frustration

Proposal to deprecate KFloppy

2023-04-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
KFloppy is an old tool to format your floppy diskettes. We packaged KFloppy for the Snap store but it doesn't work, neither does it work for the apt packages. The code depends on features of Linux that do not seem to exist any more, expecting /dev/fd0 and other nodes in /dev. It also depends on