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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Mounting Media
From:       Marten Klencke <mklencke () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-07-16 18:06:25
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Hi all!

I just thought of something: when I mount media (cd-roms, floppies...) I 
generally open Konsole and do it from bash. After mounting, KDE puts
an icon on the desktop.

Now, I was thinking, how would a not-so-power-user go about mounting media? 
The only easy way I see atm is supermount, which mounts media as soon as they 
are inserted into the drive. But this doesn't work for floppies on non-macs 
(or other systems that can eject floppies), does it?

Automount doesn't really do the job as it only checks drives upon entering the 
mount point in the filesystem. Finally, if the user doesn't use any of these, 
the shell seems to be the only option.

Maybe I'm overlooking something here, and it is imho very clean to only show 
icons of media that are currently mounted, but how does the user mount things 
then?

Konqueror seems to be a very logical place to put this functionality, but 
there is no obvious place. Maybe in the context-menus of mount points? That 
still doesn't solve the issue of making it simple to mount and access media 
though; people still have to find the mount points in the directory tree.

Ideas, comments, (corrections? maybe it is already implemented and I just 
don't see it :-) ?

Best regards,

Marten Klencke
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