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Hello, Stroller. |
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:26:45AM +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Right clicking on "Audio Disc" gives an "eject" menu point. YUCK!!! |
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> > If I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just |
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> > want my drive's eject button to work. |
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> Your Linux box isn't working, and you're complaining about Macs? |
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No, comPARing, not comPLAINing. :-) |
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> That seems a little inappropriate. |
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> Let me assure you: when a Mac has a hardware button, it will work just |
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> fine. It won't be disabled for no reason. |
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I seem to remember an old Mac back in ~1992 not having a button to eject |
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the floppy. That forced you to use the mouse in the trash can method, |
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just as Gnome is forcing me to use the mouse to eject. |
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> This is why I use Mac for the desktop. Because when I get home after a |
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> hard day's work fixing computers I don't want to have to do a "bat shit |
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> crazy amount of work to keep things working" [1]. I don't want the kind |
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> of grief you've been experiencing with this issue. I'd *love* to use |
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> Linux on the desktop, but it's stuff like this that discourages me. |
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Yes, I can understand. |
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> Right-clicking a CD to get an eject menu is very well-established |
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> across all UIs. It's better established in Windows, in fact (since c |
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> 95), than it is in Macs, which used to be criticised because one |
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> dragged the CD "to the trash" (actually, the Trash icon changes to an |
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> eject icon as soon as you start to drag a CD in MacOS). I would be |
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> *extremely* surprised to hear that KDE didn't have a right-click eject |
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> menu option when I last used it seriously a decade ago. None of this |
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> need prevent the drive's physical eject button working - it should be |
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> possible for the o/s to be aware of that (as it is in Windows, for |
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> instance). |
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Totally agree. I don't object to their being a clicky way to eject a CD; |
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I object to it being the _only_ way. My CD/DVD drive is behind a sturdy |
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sliding door. Sooner or later, I'm going to try to eject the disk with |
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this door shut, with undefined results. I'd prefer not to get into |
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dangerous habits. |
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> I'd be the first to admit that Macs have flaws, but this isn't one (or |
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> two) of them. |
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The biggest flaw the Mac has is that it's a computer. ;-) |
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> > It gets worse. If you double click on "Audio Disc", it opens a |
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> > window with the "files" uselessly displayed. |
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> I'll bet it doesn't display the actual files. Audio CDs don't have |
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> files, they have a single spiral of wav-like audio data. AIUI Linux |
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> desktops *present* audio CDs so that they *appear* as audio files, so |
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> that you can more conveniently drag and drop them to your MP3 music |
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> collection. |
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Ah, right. I dragged a track to the desktop, which converted it to .wav. |
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When I tried to play it, it was a cacophony, a sort of mixture of two |
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streams one to seconds apart. I think I'm better just playing the disk |
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with Aqualung. |
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> Typically there is a preference which allows you to choose between |
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> copying them as MP3, AAC, FLAC &c - the audio data will be transcoded |
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> to the selected format only after you drag & drop the icons in another |
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> folder. |
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> Stroller. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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