"Play Disk" dialog could use some work

[Piotr Gaczkowski]

Recently my girlfriend, having Ubuntu Dapper, wanted to watch a DVD. Since she dislikes Totem, she started VLC. And here began problems, cause she couldn't find out, how to play a DVD. There were some "play disk" tab, but it was full of spaces to fill, which scared her, and furthermore clicking OK wasn't enough.

My request is for VLC to come preconfigured so that a newbie could without problems view her/his movies. Moreover - all those input like device to use, track to begin with, etc. should go inot advanced menu - poor girl didn't know that /dev/dvd is the same as her DVD drive (well, she didn't know about the existence of /dev/dvd).

[Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid)]

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have
the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a
specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs
page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If
that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about
your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec
following the steps described in
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.

[Derk-Jan Hartman (hartman)]

HAL/DBUS changes are being worked on for future versions, which could detect DVDs
That should make it easier i guess. Not before 0.9.0 I suspect.

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketilwaa-deactivatedaccount)]

Can't your girlfriend drag and drop the DVD-icon on VLC. Works for absolutely everything else that I can think of. Heck, VLC even plays iso-images if you drag and drop it on to it. This app gets way too little focus!

- Ketil

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This is definitely something for upstream.