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gnome-system-tools package

[disks-admin] disks-manager wrongly reports DVD drive as CD-ROM

Bug #44436 reported by Fabián Rodríguez
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GST
Expired
Medium
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xubuntu-system-tools

I have a DVD burner that is wrongly reported as a CD-ROM drive, although disks-manager detects its ability to read/write DVSs. The icon and description are identical to those of a CD drive, which is misleading and may be interpreted as missing functionality for other applications.

I am attaching a snapshot of the window.

The icon and description should clearly state this is a DVD writer device, although I guess this open some discussion about the many different kinds of DVD writers out there.

Tags: disks-admin
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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote : disk-manager snapshot

disk-manager snapshot

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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote : Re: disks-manager wrongly reports DVD drive as CD-ROM

reassign to gnome-system-tools as it I see this too with my dvd reader.

Changed in xubuntu-system-tools:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343197

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote : test mail interface

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote : Re: disks-manager wrongly reports DVD drive as CD-ROM

I am not sure why this has been categorize low priority. I added some more information to the upstream bug. I really think this is an important usability issue, as more people use DVD-R/W drives and this seems to imply Ubuntu is incable of rightly identifying this "simple" device. I deal with lots of new Ubuntu users and it's getting hard to explain this, if it is only a label problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

It's low priority for the distribution, because that's only feature, of one application and not one of the most used daily by people. Setting it to medium would mean it's fairly annoying to most of users in their daily use of the distribution, that's probably not the case for that issue

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Changed in gst:
status: New → Invalid
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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote :

I believe this can be closed now, upstream has rejected it as it seems this tool is not even in Gnome anymore and/or its development has stopped.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing it now then, thanks you.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Changed in gst:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Expired
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