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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: pmount + hal + hotplug
From:       Edwin Schepers <yez () home ! nl>
Date:       2004-12-01 13:56:53
Message-ID: 200412011456.53686.yez () home ! nl
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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:02 pm, Stefan Kombrink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  recently I discovered a tool named "pmount" which provides mounting of 
> storage devices (such as cameras or usb memory sticks) under user 
> restrictions.
> 
> As I'm not very happy about the current support in KDE 3.x for such media, I 
> wanted to know what's planned for KDE 4.
> ATM it seems to me each distro wraps around their own hotplug script, are 
> there plans to standardize removeable media support in upcoming KDE 
released.
> 
> If yes, how and when will it be done?
> Is pmount to be used (I think GNOME goes that direction, too)?
Not only Stefan is interested in an answer on this question.

Under Gnome on FC3, a dialog pops up with a question what to do when plugging 
in a camera (like copying to harddisk)
With KDE, the camera is automatically mounted on /media/usbcamera. Further 
there is no user notification or something.

For me it's not such an issue, but the average user might need such a 
popup-dialog to be able to do the thing he/she wants to do. The popupdialog 
is much more user friendlier.

Regards,
Edwin
 
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