[Colin McDermott]

 >> Saving to floppies is pretty easy, as far as I know. Just use the 
File Manager and drag the files over. Saving to CDs is more difficult, 
since you need to use a CD burning application, but there's just no 
other way at the moment. Maybe someday the Filemanager will include this 
functionality.

Really? Drag them WHERE? I see no Floppy Drive icon in Thunar? If you 
have this working and there is a way to do this in Xubuntu please tell 
me. Floppy drives have been Broken in both Hoary and Breezy! Can you 
tell me of a way to do this in Xubuntu?

Cheers

Colin



Luzi Thoeny wrote:
> norman nicholls wrote:
>> Hi Lizi
>>   
> Hi Norman,
>>  
>>  I am not sure if I am the type of person that Xubuntu is targeting. 
>> I am a 66 year old carpenter that has been trying to use linux for 
>> the last 4 years.
>>   
> Of course (X)ubuntu targets everyone and anyone - that of course 
> includes carpenters and all others of any age. I happen to be a 
> linguist, and I can confidently tell you that Xubuntu works quite well 
> for me.
>>  
>>  Printing  must be realy simple. Mandrake/Mandriva have got this down 
>> pat since mandrake 8.  Ubuntu, suse, fedora all are to hard for me to 
>> work out quickly.
>>  
>>  Internet dialup conetion mandriva is the easyest. Ubuntu, suse, 
>> fedora take to many steps.
>>  
>>  Saving to cd or floppy is hard on all distro,s. microsoft just seams 
>> to have worked this on out.
>>  
>>  Total user frindlyness of all of the above is a must if Xubunto is 
>> to make its mark on the desktop of people like me.
>>  
>>  I use a P3 with mandriva 2006. For all of mandriva's faults of which 
>> there are many I still use it because of printing. Easy Printing and 
>> Printer set up is a Must
>>   
> I agree with you that Xubuntu could  still be improved in the areas of 
> Printing and Dial-Up. Both of these tasks or not as easy as they could 
> be at the moment. However, I'm not really the person to take care of 
> theses issues. That's why I'm sending this reply to the Xubuntu 
> Mailing List as well as to you, so that the developers will 
> acknowledge it. We all hope that some progress can be made on these 
> points for the next release of Xubuntu.
>
> Saving to floppies is pretty easy, as far as I know. Just use the File 
> Manager and drag the files over. Saving to CDs is more difficult, 
> since you need to use a CD burning application, but there's just no 
> other way at the moment. Maybe someday the Filemanager will include 
> this functionality.
>>  
>>  I will continue to use linux. But hope that in the not to distant 
>> future there will be a small foot print linux that is easy to use.
>>    
>>  Regards  Norman Nicholls
>>  
>>   
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> ~Luzi
>>  
>>
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>
>


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Colin McDermott
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