Franklin Maurer wrote:
On Monday 17 March 2003 09:19 pm, Bernd Koepsell wrote:
Still confused as to WHY applications are tied to ICONS and NOT DEVICE FILES!?!?!? I have to be able to duplicate the functionality of these hardware devices for other users!
There not tied to the icon, the icon points to /dev/dvd or cdrecorder which points to /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1.
Sorry about the yelling. I'm just impatient and frustrated. I'll try to cool down. Unfortunately, they are tied to these two icons. An example: /dev/dvd > sr0 is my DVD hardware device, /dev/cdrom > sr1 is my CD-RW hardware device. Icon #1 points to /dev/cdrom > sr1. The device files are properly symlinked and fstab is correct. -- If I put in an audioCD in my CD-RW, KsCD (a cd player) is started and plays my audioCD. If I change Icon #1 to point to /dev/dvd > sr0, and put an audioCD in my DVD hardware device,KsCD is started but it doesn't see my audioCD. If I put it in my CD-RW hardware device (even though Icon #1 points to /dev/dvd > sr0) and press Icon #1, KsCD is started and plays my audioCD. The same thing happens with the other icon, just with another application. It doesn't matter what I name these icons,what device files I point them to, where they are symlinked, or even creating bogus device files and pointing them there. These two icons still function the same. Both icons can be pointed to the same or different device files, which also can be symlinked to the same or different files. If I put in an audioCD, or a dataCD, etc., and press an icon, I will always get the same response for the same type of disk. Thanks for your help. Bernd