On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 15:21 +0100, Mark wrote: > Where would you expect it to be if you didn't know about Removable > devices and media. Blunt answer: We have menus, it allows us to look through them and see what's on offer. It doesn't take too long to find these choices. And if you're unfamiliar with a system, it does pay to look through them all from time to time, and find out what they're for. Having said that, I see room for improvement. The default applications should set what program is the DVD player, amongst other default applications you could set (music players, text editors, etc.). So that anything that calls upon a DVD player, uses your preferred one. The removeable media preferences should ask whether you want to play the DVD video automatically, or not, with the first playing option being to use your default player, *then* let you pick some other option, with another parameter, if you wanted. e.g. Auto-play on insertion might use a simple command that starts playing full screen, and no further questions asked. Double-clicking or right-click to play a DVD might bring up a player with a GUI control panel. For those people that do have different preferences for those two different ways. Personally, I'd turn auto-play-on-insert off, and pick a player that'd be used when I deliberately want to play a disc. I don't usually play DVDs on the computer, I do often copy them though. Auto players get in the way of that. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
