2 Sep
2012
2 Sep
'12
11:32 p.m.
Does
'eject' work from the command line at all on your system?
Yes and no.
The eject command works great to open and close the drive tray --- until I
insert a disk. When I insert a disk and the drive tray closes, the eject
command stops working. When I use the drive button to eject the disk, the
eject command thereafter starts working again.
Hence my previous comment that there might be some kind of soft lock
occuring. I have a spare box with both a CD reader and a DVD
burner that has both
KDE3 and TDE installed. I'll burn two identical CDs and see what happens.
I don't think breaking from the tradition or being different from the
other desktops with this one feature will go over well with users. I hate
WTF moments. :-)
Of course, and I do understand the rationale. However, this corner case
is still a real possibility, and we don't want an even bigger WTF moment
if it is triggered for some reason.
A reasonable compromise might be to include the dev node name at the end
of the mount point in brackets, i.e. "/media/My CD Label (sr0)". Once we
know how HAL handles this corner case via your test I can try to duplicate
its behaviour as much as possible.
Tim