On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:09, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
Until FC5, I'm used to seeing no blank space character in
installation CD &
DVD media's volume labels. Is there any specific reason why FC6 changed its
course?
This one Windows idiom (as a Linux & Windows sys admin) of having blank
space character (in file name, directory name, user name, group name,
volume name etc.) is the most painful thing to deal with when scripting &
other work flow techniques are concerned.
So the question is, why not keep it simple with the use of _ or - like
characters for CD/DVD labels? I'm sure there'll be clever ways of handling
blank space characters, but why bother with cleverness, when simple things
(KISS philosophy of unix for example) are admirable/appreciable for their
simplicity.
Mostly because it was easier to read when the CD was inserted and the Volume
showed up on the desktop. Its an odd site effect that gnome-volume-manager
mounts in /media using the volume name. However it _does_ work, so...
If there is significant request/reasons to change it back to a - or a _ I'll
consider it.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora