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by Origins on Friday 02/May/2008, @12:23

Wasn't Solids goal to replace all hardware interfacing code why is KFloppy still alive.

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Re: KFloppy
by JRT on Friday 02/May/2008, @15:02

Kfloppy is a GUI interface to the Linux utilities which format floppy disks. There is no KDE hardware interfacing involved.

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Re: KFloppy
by Origins on Friday 02/May/2008, @15:20

But shouldn't it be integrated more discretely to appear only when there makes sense instead of dedicated front-end which in my opinion clusters space in appropriate sub-menu of K menu.

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Re: KFloppy
by Robert Knight on Saturday 03/May/2008, @05:19

> But shouldn't it be integrated more discretely to appear
> only when there makes sense

Yes but as I hope you can appreciate, sorting out floppy-disk formatting is somewhat low on the list of priorities right now - not least because I suspect that the majority of KDE developers do not even have floppy-disk drives in their laptops or workstations. Consequently Kubuntu for example doesn't ship the utility out of the box and I'm sure that is true of other distributions as well - that is the simplest way to stop it from cluttering up the K-Menu.

If this is something of a bugbear for you then I encourage you to get involved yourself - even if that means just asking your distribution not to include it out of the box.

One last thing to point out - "Solid","Phonon","Nepomuk" etc. are all libraries of code there for use by developers. They are not programs which the user can interact with directly. If you are not developing KDE software then they are not directly of interest to you.

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Re: KFloppy
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 03/May/2008, @05:20

And why is there a tool specifically for floppies, and featuring only 3 hard-coded filesystems when many computers don't even have floppy drives? It should be independent of disk type and file system and it indeed shouldn't be a stand-alone app.

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Re: KFloppy
by John Tapsell on Saturday 03/May/2008, @06:07

True - it's just that noone has gotten round to doing it.

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Re: KFloppy
by MamiyaOtaru on Monday 05/May/2008, @07:38

That guy is everywhere.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Noone

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Re: KFloppy
by Beat Wolf on Saturday 03/May/2008, @07:21

Sounds like a plan. Seriously, try to do it yourself, coding isn't that hard as soon as you made the first steps :-)

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Re: KFloppy
by JRT on Saturday 03/May/2008, @10:04

KFloppy has been around for a while.

I think that it clearly needs some work -- needs to be replaced with a utility that can format other types of removable media as well. And needs a new name.

I have floppies because I have a DIY computer, I have had the floppies for some time. :-) But, when I upgrade, I don't remove them since I still have some data and software on floppies.

Yes, they are becoming obsolete.

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Re: KFloppy
by Origins on Saturday 03/May/2008, @15:02

Some of people here didn't understand me I am not saying that floppy drive isn't
important in fact I keep it around in case I need it.I am just saying that it doesn't need a separate front-end for its purpose end that the same thing can be done in a more conformable way for example option to format floppy can appear in front of user when hi puts unformated floppy in drive and rest of the time be an entry in properties.

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Re: KFloppy
by Paul Eggleton on Sunday 04/May/2008, @14:42

> option to format floppy can appear in front of user
> when hi puts unformated floppy in drive

Unfortunately I don't think this is possible without constantly polling the floppy drive, which is probably not a good idea. Still, you could have a "Format" context menu action or similar.

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Re: KFloppy
by Origins on Sunday 04/May/2008, @16:40

My thinking is that it appears when he try to access the unformatted floppy not before because it is reasonable to suspect that he first needs to format it to use it.

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Re: KFloppy
by Riddle on Saturday 03/May/2008, @18:32

Doesn't QParted already do floppies? If that's true, then KFloppy is already obsolete.

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Re: KFloppy
by Leo S on Sunday 04/May/2008, @08:43

Except qparted is really buggy and not at all end user friendly.

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