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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Mounting Media
From:       Joseph Wenninger <jowenn () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-16 18:39:18
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Hi

I'm assuming you are using Linux. For other operating systems (BSD,.....) I 
don't have the knowledge to implement it correctly

Add to the mount options user into the fstab instead of the possibly existing 
nouser. And turn the Unmounted cdrom/floppy... devices in the desktop 
configuration on. If you click onto the devices they are mounted 
automatically if possible. Unmounting is possible with the RMB menu

If you open devices:/ in konqueror you will see all devices from the fstab. 
Attention: There is a small bug in konqy's sidebar which could cause a crash, 
if you add the devices:/ link into it

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 18:06, Marten Klencke wrote:
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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 :-) ?
>


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