fredg999
Still Fresh
So all the time ZXDunny was joking about the printer thing? Either I'm dumb or the irony wasn't all that obvious…
The kind of information that could be written down (on a piece of paper, ZXDunny, of course :rolleyes: ), would include the UUID, the SD Card/USB drive model and name, the size, the first few bytes like proposed above (though if you added files to it in the meanwhile, without affecting other files, this can behave weirdly), and possibly the PNDs being run from each of them; things that are simple, quick and can be obtained without too much work. I don't know exactly how the handling of these devices work, but I doubt it's anything very hard to do.
As of asking questions about the user on suspend and wake up, the more I think about it, the less I like it, actually. Maybe it is because I didn't explain my idea thoroughly. It could become inefficient, because it could be doing this every time you suspend the system. However, I think there's still a way to make it lighter and faster, and always optional. Before suspending, open a window that will show a list of all the removable devices. Click 'OK' to suspend, 'Cancel' to, well, cancel the suspend, otherwise auto suspend in 10 seconds or so. Actually, that list could be part of a suspend confirmation part. As of it being optional, I don't know where this could be turned back on, maybe in some system settings, but I don't know how these work. When waking up, there could be a window comparing the devices before and after, showing a green check mark for every device that is mounted and corresponds to one in the list. Of course, one could add plug in new devices too without disturbing this process. When one device is missing, a red X will be shown. If there is no X, it automatically closes in a few seconds; if there is one or more, it prompts for plugging back before restarting PNDs (though this can be a bit long for a simple wake up, how faster can we restore safely all PNDs?) or to stop or ignore the PNDs running from that card/drive.
Being optional is very important, because some might find it long and boring while they're trying to save time at the Pandora starting process.
What do you think?
The kind of information that could be written down (on a piece of paper, ZXDunny, of course :rolleyes: ), would include the UUID, the SD Card/USB drive model and name, the size, the first few bytes like proposed above (though if you added files to it in the meanwhile, without affecting other files, this can behave weirdly), and possibly the PNDs being run from each of them; things that are simple, quick and can be obtained without too much work. I don't know exactly how the handling of these devices work, but I doubt it's anything very hard to do.
As of asking questions about the user on suspend and wake up, the more I think about it, the less I like it, actually. Maybe it is because I didn't explain my idea thoroughly. It could become inefficient, because it could be doing this every time you suspend the system. However, I think there's still a way to make it lighter and faster, and always optional. Before suspending, open a window that will show a list of all the removable devices. Click 'OK' to suspend, 'Cancel' to, well, cancel the suspend, otherwise auto suspend in 10 seconds or so. Actually, that list could be part of a suspend confirmation part. As of it being optional, I don't know where this could be turned back on, maybe in some system settings, but I don't know how these work. When waking up, there could be a window comparing the devices before and after, showing a green check mark for every device that is mounted and corresponds to one in the list. Of course, one could add plug in new devices too without disturbing this process. When one device is missing, a red X will be shown. If there is no X, it automatically closes in a few seconds; if there is one or more, it prompts for plugging back before restarting PNDs (though this can be a bit long for a simple wake up, how faster can we restore safely all PNDs?) or to stop or ignore the PNDs running from that card/drive.
Being optional is very important, because some might find it long and boring while they're trying to save time at the Pandora starting process.
What do you think?
