Bug 97612

Summary:	devices icons has no friendly name
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Mathieu Jobin <opensource>
Component:	media	Assignee:	Benoit Walter <b.walter>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	devices icons

Description Mathieu Jobin 2005-01-21 17:40:17 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.3.91 (beta1), Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.9

when you look at the small screenshot I took, you will quickly understand, it is super hard for me to find which devices is the one i want.

for two reasons

1 - devices name are un friendly
2 - recent kde 3.3 and 3.4 has no quick access to a full file name. shorten on the desktop

attachment coming

Comment 1 Mathieu Jobin 2005-01-21 17:41:16 UTC

Created attachment 9206 [details]
devices icons

Comment 2 Martin Koller 2005-01-30 16:56:38 UTC

ad 1)I've seen that you can change the name displayed in the properties dialog (however I don't see a way to ever revert to the original name).

ad 2) on the desktop, with 3.4 you should see a tooltip (either the large one when activated, or at least one which gives the full name)

Comment 3 Mathieu Jobin 2005-02-22 07:00:00 UTC

2) nice you updated this tooltip, so we can see something.
1) still, I think "Removable Media (usb/<name>)" should be change to

 "<name> (usb) - Removable Media"

or something like that,

just "<name>" straight is not a bad idea either... why would I need more information than that ? the tooltip is telling me everything I need to know write ? I never need to know I have 5 Removable Media icon on my desktop, I need to recognize in half of a second which one is which one.

Comment 4 Kevin Ottens 2006-06-09 21:14:06 UTC

Now follow-up on this one for more than one year.
Moreover now it's (partly) valid only for kio media fstab backend, with the HAL backend the labels are acceptable. Since the fstab backend will disappear post-3.5 I'm closing this one as WONTFIX.