Re: Drive Directories

Tony Houghton wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:23:24 +0000
> Mark Williams<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> When did ROX stop adding drive directories to new panels? And why?
>
> I think that's ROX-Session's setup script, I vaguely remember changing
> it when I resurrected the C version. I changed it because fixed drives
> don't have the same sort of significance in *nix as they did in RISC OS.
> The user's home directory is likely to be far more useful in ROX and
> doesn't that get put on the pinboard by default? So putting it on the
> panel would be redundant. As for optical drives and floppies (who still
> uses floppies?) they're better handled by DevTray or my Media applet.
>
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I,liked having a cd/dvd drive icon on the panel because I could use the 
eject function to open the tray. Thus saving me the bother of having to 
reach down and press the button myself :-)


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