[Kde-hardware-devel] udisks2 status for floppy drives

[Daniel Nicoletti]

IMHO the icon must be there as most PC's floppy drives
that I know of doesn't inform about having a disk or not,
I think if a user doesn't want to see it, he
could just disable it in the BIOS.

2014-04-30 17:36 GMT-03:00 Jacopo De Simoi <wilderkde at gmail.com>:
> I am trying to fix bug 318061 i.e. the fact that floppy drives appear in the
> notifier even if no disc is inserted. I've been able to reproduce with udisks2
>
> The situation for udisks2 is indeed quite messy. According to the specs:
>
> ---
> The "MediaChangeDetected" property
>
> MediaChangeDetected  readable   b
> Set to TRUE only if media changes are detected.
>
> Media changes are detected on all modern disk drives through either polling or
> an asynchronous notification mechanism. The only known disk drives that cannot
> report media changes are PC floppy drives.
>
> The "Size" property
>
> Size  readable   t
> The size of the drive (or the media currently in the drive).
>
> This is always 0 if "MediaChangeDetected" is FALSE.
>
> ---
>
> This sucks big time; the size of any floppy disc will always be reported as 0;
> so we can't filter 0-sized devices on the client side.
>
> I propose to “Ignore” volumes which are floppy drives and whose UUID is empty.
> In this way empty drives should not be displayed by either dolphin or the
> notifier.
>
> We would then need to listen for changes in the uuid property to ensure that
> the system reacts to insertion of actual floppy discs.
>
> Finally, we should change the volume description for floppy discs, as
> otherwise they would always appear as 0B removable disc.
>
> If nobody has objections, I can work on implementing the above proposal,
> otherwise we should discuss another strategy.
>
> Best,
>
>  __J
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