Belkin 8-in-1

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:28 +0000, Bob Billing wrote:
> > Well, in my view it's a bug to depend on the mount point name (note
> > that the UI in FC3 almost doesn't do that), but that is another
> > discussion that is out of scope for this mailing list :-)
> 
> Just out of idle curiosity, and without wishing to start a punchup^W
> argument, what would you consider is the corrct way?
> 
> There is an ulterior motive for this. I'm considering writing a "digital
> darkroom" application to keep track of photo libraries, manage print
> runs and so on. Initially it's for my own use but I hope to release it
> under GPL, and so I'd like it to be as portable as possible.
> 

Well, I guess you need some UI for the user to select what device to
get pictures from and print pictures to. HAL can easily give you the
vendor/product name of the drive a volume belongs to.

David 

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