From kde-devel  Tue Aug 19 09:53:23 2003
From: Gav Wood <gav () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:53:23 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: autorun?!
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On Tuesday 19 August 2003 02:59, David Johnson wrote:
> Henrique Pinto wrote:
> > One of the features KDE is missing is removable media automounting and
> > I'm interested in implementing this. There are, however, some
> > considerations on how it should be done. Below I list my ideas of
> > possibilities for this implementation:
>
> Automounters should belong to the underlying system and not to KDE, as
> they are not standardized. A better way to do this is to create a front
> end and/or set of scripts that use the available automount facilities.
> If that's what you meant, great.

no. but then i wasn't talking exclusively about automount.

mounting a data cd may be a couse of action on a disc insertion; so might=20
executing "kfmclient ~/Desktop/CD.desktop", "xine dvd:/", "kscd", a custom=
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made shell script. how about displaying an icon on the desktop to the cd's=
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actual icon (i.e. as it would appear in windows).

this type of infrastructure is not standardised in the unix environment.=20
autorun (by redhat) goes some way towards it, but isn't perfect being=20
cumbersome to use in a gui environment (a daemon in it's own right),=20
inefficient (will only execute one command per disc type), and rather=20
ineffective (can only handle a couple of types of disc).

i coded a simple, effective library-based solution, based from code by Eric=
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Lathrop, author of cdde (cd detect and execute); it works well, is easily=20
portable to bsd etc, is smart (autodetects devices), and relatively=20
integrated.

> Beyond that, I think a KDED module is the best way to go, with user
> configurable actions. And whatever you do, make it extremely easy to
> turn off. I love automount, but I absolutely abhor the autorun/autoplay
> stuff in Windows.

fair enough.

gav

=2D-=20
Gav Wood <gav@kde.org>

codito ergo non satis bibivi

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