From kde-linux Sat Aug 12 21:04:19 2006 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:04:19 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Mechanism that mounts USB flashdrives Message-Id: <44DE4253.2040709 () acm ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=115541666209559 Jim Philips wrote: > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 19:31, David J Iannucci wrote: >>> From start to finish I would like to understand the whole process if >>> anyone is patient enough to clue me in or point me to a FAQ somewhere >>> that explains how it all works under KDE. >> I would really like to know this stuff, too. I have looked around but >> haven't been able to find this information, and have been rather >> frustrated by it at times. >> >> However, I suspect this is a base OS issue, and not related to KDE >> directly. No? > > I thought maybe it was something to do with my distro. But I now have it > working flawlessly in Gnome. And it still doesn't work in KDE. I even rebuilt > all of KDE once I verified that DBUS and HAL were set up properly to work > with Gnome. But the KDE control center still has all HAL-related options > grayed out. This suggests to me, at the very least, that the feature is > poorly implemented in KDE. Either that, or I just hit the right combination > for Gnome and the wrong one for KDE out of sheer random luck. I can't find any good documentation either. The KDE HOWTO is very much out of date as is another one that I found with Google. There is no TLDP HOWTO. :-(. I am afraid that you are correct that this is another example of KDE kicking something out the door in a *stable* release (nothing wrong with doing this if they had development releases like GNOME does) before it was really ready for prime time. Fortunately, I find that the old style manually created device icons still work perfectly. So, that is what I did -- switched back to them. -- JRT ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.