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