Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (327 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, August 26, 2011 01:05:13 PM C wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 21:32, Patrick Shanahan 
<paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx> 
[08-26-11 15:02]:
> > > One thing that was nice in OS X was the ease of 
mounting an
> > > image as a virtual disk. I rarely had use for this however 
until I
> > > got a netbook, which has no optical drive. Now when I 
have
> > > hoped to install certain games (running on WINE) this is
> > > unnecessarilly complicated, if not impossible due to the 
lack of
> > > optical drive and the lack of an easy mounting option. 
Can we
> > > be sure to add an easy way to mount disk images? 
Maybe just
> > > right click>mount image in Dolphin? I don't imagine it 
should be
> > > very hard to implement, and would be very useful... 
especially
> > > as more users are turning to netbooks and similar 
devices.
> > well, it is very simple but not point-and-click...
> >
> > mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>
> >
> > further help available.
>
> A GUI alternative is to use Acetone ISO which is in the 
repos.  It
> sets up Virtual drives for your ISOs.. mounts them there like 
any
> other mount, and applications can use them like a mounted 
CD/DVD.
> It's one step up from the file manager option mentioned by 
Roger O.
> C.
Thats better, but clearly not obvious. I personally like to see 
people dump proprietary OSes. But that will not happen 
unless our solutions are obvious. It is not feasible for a casual 
user to do tons of research on packages they don't know exist 
or are even needed.
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