On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: <SNIP> > I have them on 10 of my 15 most used systems, therefore I make use of them.
Nobody is suggesting you shouldn't make use of floppy drives but only that KDE & Linux devs may not be putting any effort into supporting these anymore. Unlike you I haven't had a floppy drive in ANY machine for at least 5 if not 8 years now. I put all my old floppy discs through a shredder to ensure they were destroyed about 4 years ago. Much like a recent thread about USB scanners, sometimes Windows or the Mac has support first because the scanner manufacturer does a Windows or Mac driver. They cannot sell a scanner into that market without the driver. They work with M$ to ensure what is needed is there or they don't sell scanners. Unfortunately these companies don't generally care about selling into the Linux market as much so Linux gets support generally when some interested dev creates a Linux driver. (Or does modifications, etc.) The issue here isn't whether you should be able to use floppies. Go ahead and use them. However if you don't like the way things work then a users list isn't the place to get a real fix done. You need to find an interested KDE or Linux developer willing to do the work, or you need to do it yourself, or you need to pay someone to do it. - Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
