Re: [rox-devel] Request to correct a misfeature

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:10:24PM +0200, Olivier Migeot wrote:
> Just an idea about .DirIcon.png... What if we allow to look for it on cdroms
> (for example)? Maybe we need some case insensitive search...
> 
> We can add support for AppRun files on CDs too, it'll make ROX act as
> Windows' autorun ;p (but with the difference that the AppRun will only run
> when the CD dir is openend...we could even add a little symbol on the icon
> to warn user about it)

Well, apart from the slight confusion of Shift clicking (unmount, or look
inside?) there's the problem that you don't know what will happen when you
mount the CD. Will it open a directory, or run an application?

You can't display the warning icon until the CD is mounted, and by then
it's too late ;-)

The other issue is that we don't know that something is a CD (rather than,
say, a floppy or a samba share), and just looking inside a mount point for
the .DirIcon.png could cause an automounter to do something.

Eg, you change to the /mnt directory and the system tries to mount
/floppy, /zip and /cdrom all at once...


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