[Panel-devel] kalming kickoff

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 12 November 2007, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le lundi 12 novembre 2007, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> > well.. that's just it. it isn't in the DVD drive. isAccessible() returns
> > false. i haven't put another disk in the drive since i ejected it, and
> > apparently HAL was too stupid to notice.
>
> Well, that's a bug in HAL.

*grrrrr* bad hal, bad! =)

> > this is a generic issue, though. it's the same thing with other such
> > removable devices which may not be optical in nature?
>
> You don't need as much information for the other ones IMHO, they're just
> drives having a bus and a given type. Only Optical drives have so many
> varieties (and varieties the user care about apparently...).

hm.. ok.. i'll work some more on this then...

> > > Sure, really I'm restating it here but most of the things you list are
> > > problems already solved in KFilePlacesModel. If I were you I'd use that
> > > maybe using a proxy model to attach more information (like the subtext
> > > line you seem to want).
> >
> > i agree; but unless someone steps up this won't happen from me until
> > after 4.0 since it would mean going through a bunch more work. i'm ok
> > with a decent bodge for 4.0 with a better solution for 4.1.
>
> OK. I'll see if I can find sometime. But if I work on this one you'll have
> to check the size problems with the handle (all the issues left with the
> applet handle boil down to the way size is managed in applets). Deal? :-)

hehe.. deal. and i wasn't hinting at you to work on it, btw ;)

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