Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:13 +0100, norman wrote:
> I have come into this after the discussion has been going on for quite a
> long time. As I understand it a GUI approach to the use of floppies is
> being asked for which, in my opinion, is very reasonable. 

Yes. And a GUI approach to using floppies exists. It's just that Jimmy
demands things that are impossible on the PC platform (sensing of floppy
changes), possibly combined with a little bug in Nautilus (the file
manager).

The way Jimmy behaves is, however, not reasonable.

> I seem to
> remember that the first version of Ubuntu had, under accessories, a menu
> for formatting floppies. I was prepared to put up with that and to use
> the icon on the desktop when a floppie was put into the drive. Somewhere
> in the development of Ubuntu the facility to format floppies got lost
> and I have always regretted that.

See my other post that I just sent. The floppy formatter is there, it is
just hidden in the menus by default.