Adieu, Fedora

[Tim]

Tim:
>> And how about giving the devices a label?  That's something that really
>> sucks on all the Linux desktops I've tried.

Bryn M. Reeves:
> Well, I'm an old fashioned terminal user and I don't mind reading the man page
> for mkfs.vfat to find out how to set the volume name of a file system (it's -n
> volume-name btw) but I see your point.

Things have probably improved since I last tried (still on Fedora 9,
here).  But my point was with a GUIfied system, one that's being touted
as the bees knees, and doesn't require geek/guru status to use,
everything should be do-able through the GUI, and the GUI should be
self-documenting.  If one has to resort to the command line, or even
additional instructions, then the GUI design has failed.

The last time I tried to do this with a DOS/FAT formatted drive, I had
to figure out how to assign a drive letter to the drive, before I could
use the DOS commands to apply a drive label (because those commands
could only make use of DOS drive letters, rather than Linux device
names).

>> Other OS's let you select a device and rename it through the GUI.  Don't
>> like it being called USBdisc?  Then rename it to musicdrive, the same
>> way as you'd rename any other file or folder (usually:  right-click,
>> rename).

> I agree it would be nice to have nautilus wired up to do this and it makes a lot
> of sense but the only bug report that I could find upstream was this:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413172
> 
> Which is asking for a way to change the displayed (icon) name without changing
> the volume name..

I miss the way this was handled back on my Amiga.  In the root of a disc
partition (or whole disk), was placed a disc.info file.  Not only did it
hold various bits of info about the disc (the same as file .info files
did for their associated files or directories), it could also hold the
icon image.  Giving any disc a custom icon was simply a matter of
putting a file into its root directory.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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