[Kde-hardware-devel] [kde-artists] Renaming Oxygen's devices/ icons

[James Richard Tyrer]

Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007, Jakob Petsovits a écrit :
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>> media-optical-recordable can't reasonably be represented with an emblem,
>> so I think it should still be kept as is.
> 
> Yeah, that's the main point for not doing media-optical-(dvd|hddvd|...). 
> You're suddenly screwed for the recordable version. So I'd keep only 
> media-optical and media-optical-recordable.

Yes, there is a slight issue here.  Previously, I pointed out that there 
were three major types of CDs: Audio, Data, Blank (with there being 
various types of Blank CDs).  So, when you record something on one, it 
is no longer Blank so it becomes either a Audio CD or a Data CD, and we 
can attach an emblem to indicate the type of content.  With DVDs, this 
is the same except that there doesn't appear to be any physical 
difference in audio DVDs (again, there are various types of Blanks). 
So, it is much simpler with DVDs since you only have one icon (at least 
that is the way we were doing it).

So, Blank disks don't have any emblem on them and disks have an emblem 
if they have content.  Perhaps it isn't sufficient to presume that blank 
disks are recordable, but is there any way to actually determine that a 
Blank disk is actually recordable?

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JRT