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[Gtktalog-devel]Re: GTKtalog problems and THANX ! :)
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Yves Mettier |
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[Gtktalog-devel]Re: GTKtalog problems and THANX ! :) |
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Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:26:26 +0100 (CET) |
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm quite busy now, and I will answer short to your mail. Sorry about this.
>
> np :)
>
>> Good idea. You get a box with the name. In an "extended" mode, you would be
>> able to
>> set other things too!
>
> Exactly :)
>
>
>> Well, what should I say...
>> I wanted to remove them, because I did not use them, and I did not know what
>> was
>> interesting for users. But just before I remove them, Tamas Gervai told me
>> he would
>> work on them and rewrote a lot of code there (thanks again, Tamas:)
>
> Ah ... cool ... keep those in ... sometimes it makes no sense to have some
> stuff on
> the list, whenever there are meaningful names to the cds themselves. thats
> why I
> actually selected that way. :)
>
>
>> I have no such CD. If the new team has some, they will probably enjoy
>> working on it.
>
> Well, I will try with some shorter clip than 600 megs ... maybe its really
> 'playing'
> the .dat file as mpg -- as I think :)
I don't know.
I just remember that some people worked on the video plugins, and they are using
3rd-party programs. I don't know how they work.
>
>> GTKtalog is supposed to do it. Have you configured it in the preferences ?
>
> Yes, I did ... dunno if I ever checked the -b flag which is default there in
> the
> manpage, but will look next week, when I am bacl home. :)
>
>> gtktalog, eject worked on some, and not on others. Sometimes, the device is
>> still in
>> use when gtktalog tries to eject the CD. Adding a delay can be a workaround,
>> but is
>> it the solution ?
>
> Maybe there is some way to query if the drive actually ejected ?
I don't know. Moreover, this is a hardware issue, and I tkink that the software
implementation is OS specific.
The problem is not to do it, but how to do it :)
>
>
>> > -- idea 2 - DVD-rw is coming up and my SuSE automounter handles that on
>> > /misc/dvd
>> --- some way of having more than one automount path ?
>>
>> Currently not. This is a lot of work. But you are not the first to ask for
>> it, maybe
>> the 2nd or the 3rd. When gtktalog works with gnome2, maybe this can become a
>> priority ? We'll see with the new team :)
>
> Well, raping the sytem would prolly work aswell ... somehow map it all the
> same way.
> :)
Yes for a 2nd source, but what if somebody asks for a 3rd source?
No, we have to make some big changes to have a clean code (remember: cleaner
code means
fewer bugs:)
>
>> Trove category (extract):
>> Topic :: System :: Archiving
>
> Hm ... must have missed that :)
>
>
>> Anyway, when programming on free software, you learn quicly the 2 following
>> rules:
>> 1/ a program always contains bugs
>> 2/ a program is never "final"
>
> See my homepage at rr.c64.org to see ppl work on real buggy programs :)
:)
Yves
>
> l8r
>
> --
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