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Re: [GWhere-discussion] possible bug report on disk naming |
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:57:23 +0200 |
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Hi,
Is it normal if you didn't post this mail on the mailing list??
|>>>> V0.1.4 on Debian Sarge consistently names a new disk from the
|>>>> contents of the "Name" field, even if "use disk volume name as disk
|>>>> name" is checked.
|>>>> All the other right side "Options" in the scan dialog are selected,
|>>>> too.
|>>>> Further parameters as needed.
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|>>> Is your disk have got a "volume name" or a "label"?? Because if the
|>>> disk label is empty, GWhere will use the contents of the "Name"
field.
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|>> If i give (or forget to empty) a name in the "Management" dialog's
|>> "Name" text field, then Gwhere consistently uses that instead of a
|>> CDs label data. Sorry if i was unclear about that.
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|> Ok, GWhere should do the inverse : if the CD label data is not
|> present, it use the "Name" text field in the "Management" dialog.
|> At time, I'm unable to replay the trouble. But I looking for a solve.
|> I keep you informed.
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| I said a mistake!! :-/
| GWhere use the disk label only if the corresponding option is checked
| and if the field named "Disk Name" is empty. You can check it with the
| tooltips on the option "use disk label as disk name".
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| So your trouble is not really a bug.
| Do you think that we should change this feature behavior??
You're right, of course. But (not looking that hard at the tooltip
info) i read
this option as an imperative, i.e. "ignore any Name entry and get it
from the
disk instead".
So, i guess i'll consider this a conceptual bug: the button text leads
me to
believe one thing while the tooltip says something IMHO different.
Anyway, i understand that one now; it won't bite me anymore. 8^)
I think I will change this behavior. I cannot do it for the next version
of GWhere because it is near to be ready.
On a related note, how about changing "disk" on that dialog page to
"media" or
some such? I think there's someting of a confusion where "disk" is
used both for
the catalog entry and the physical media itself.
Furthermore, as the media can be anything mountable, like USB sticks
or Flash
cards, i'd think that "disk" is not that appropriate any more.
You're right. I will change all "disk" references about physical data
storage by "media". This should be done in the same version which will
fix the behavior of the "use disk label as disk name" feature.
Regards,
Zero
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Best regards,
Zero
Maintainer,
GWhere - Another way to manage your catalogs!!
http://www.gwhere.org
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