Adieu, Fedora

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/14/2011 01:48 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Since what you are talking about is NOT a hardware or driver function,
> you were asking the wrong people.  If you had a similar attitude in your
> post to their list, it wouldn't be surprising for you to get a negative
> response.
>

The response to my first post was a (demonstrably false) claim that the 
detection software did, in fact, report the label, followed by the 
statement that I had to talk to my DE's devs.  At the time, I was using 
F13 and Gnome, and had ample experience with the lack of response the 
Gnome devs were giving to users.

> In any case, since you didn't say which desktop environment you are
> using, it is hard to know what your problem is.  If I attach a flash
> drive with a FAT32 filesystem with a label, the label is used for the
> mount point and the desktop icon (on my F13/GNOME system).

The problem continued to exist when I went to F14, and is still there 
now that I've switched to XFCE.  My main complaint isn't that it doesn't 
work, it's that the USB devs refused to even admit that their software 
wasn't reporting the label, even when presented with evidence directly 
contradicting their claim.  Yes, it's up to the DE to make use of the 
label but claiming that it's reported when it is not, isn't the best way 
to go, IMO.