On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 06:58:43 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
On 13/11/13 18:04, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-11-13 07:38 (GMT+0100) C composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=138424961802070&w=2 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061
Someone please find a realistic solution for this soon. It's a miserable blight for KDE in 13.1 to begin life this way.
I have a feeling you will struggle to find a fix for it. As was stated in the thread you linked... floppies are obsolete (for many years) and finding someone with the knowledge AND incentive fix an
Did you read the bug? It seems to me only a little programmer help is needed to come up with a solution.
issue for hopelessly obsolete hardware (even if in your use case, you still use them) is going to be very difficult... or more likely impossible.
There really shouldn't be a material difference in this problem between an empty BluRay drive and an empty floppy drive. Absent media, there's nothing to announce about either.
Regardless, device notifier ought to be able to be configured so that only selected device types be recognized.
At the very least, there's no reason for it to be stealing focus.
I haven't seen a computer with a floppy drive in 5 or 6 years now... and now, CD/DVD drives are becoming rare... soon to be obsolete as well.
As long as people have floppies and CDs and DVDs they need something to access them. Combining DVDs, CDs and floppies, I have well over 3000, and I know people whose libraries are measured with 5 digits.
I'll go along with this.
I don't know if people realise this but vinyl LPs are back in vogue.
No joke. There is a company here in Australia which cannot keep up with the demand for vinyl LPs and is pressing them at a furious rate.
I didn't know about this until very recently but some moths ago I bought a turntable (for $A50) which will play all the old vinyls/records [33 1/3, 45, 78 ) and output using a USB port. I can now record all my vinyls/records I have sitting in "storage" and edit them using Audacity.
So don't knock floppies.
They are natural when you get older.
BC
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Your 100% right on the LP's. They are coming back all over. I know magnetic tapes (Good Quality) only last 5-10 years in storage vaults. When I was working we used to rewite the older tapes to new tape on a defined schedule. Especially the ones we were required to keep for ever. Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(3.12.0-1.ge8fa6b4-desktop)|KDE 4.11.3 |Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.20) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org