Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Jimmy Montague]

Vukelic -- Floppy Formatter is installed on my system and has been
installed since the get-go. It doesn't work. Although Applications -
Add/Remove shows that floppy formatter is present, floppy formatter
doesn't show up in any of the menus and no formatting options appear
when I right-click the drive in any context.

I made those facts plain early in the exchange, but Silverstrim was so
busy spouting command-line blah that he missed the point. Seems like you
missed it, too. So now you've got it (I hope), there's another bug you
can report. Or put somewhere.

Maybe it's a Gnome thing. Maybe it's a Nautilus thing. Maybe it's a
Ubuntu thing. I'm a user, for god's sake, not a
developer/programmer. How the hell am I supposed to know whose/which
province the thing belongs in?.

And regarding that question I will again raise a point that I raised
earlier. The sooner Ubuntu (or Mandrake or Xandros or any other distro)
realizes that responsibility for buggy administrative software installed
by THEIR DISTRO is THEIR PROBLEM, the sooner those bugs will be fixed
and the sooner that distro will capture more market share.

If I have a problem with Explorer (the Windoze file manager) Microsoft
doesn't blow me off and tell me to consult the Explorer development
team. Microsoft treats it as a Windoze problem and, soon as they can
devise one, broadcasts the fix for that problem. So, if Ubuntu is going
to rely on the Gnome interface and the Nautilus file manager, Ubuntu
people would be wise to take versions of Gnome and Nautilus under the
Ubuntu development wing and solve problems associated with those tools
and better integrate those tools into the Ubuntu concept.

More directly -- when Ubuntu developers start thinking of Ubuntu AS A
SYSTEM instead of a collection of software that, for the most part,
works together, the sooner Ubuntu Linux will attract a lions share of
the user base -- a user base that, whether YOU like it or not, consists
of guys like me who are devoted to the GUI.

Jimmy Again
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On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:42 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 16:20 -0400, POWERS, ZACK wrote:
> > In Linux the formating of various media is done by a program called
> > parted. parted has a graphical front-end named GParted that can format
> > your floppy disc for you.
> 
> I'd recommend the floppy formatter instead. Gparted is way overkill to
> format floppies, and it is easy to break stuff. 
> 
> Right-click the Applications menu to edit the menu. In the left pane go
> to System Tools. Click it, then check the box next to Floppy Formatter.
> This will add the floppy formatter to the System Tools menu. Start it
> from there.
> 
>