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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Mounting Media
From:       Marten Klencke <mklencke () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-07-16 18:42:12
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Hi!

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 20:35, Uno Engborg wrote:
> Why not add a "Mount. .. " menu item to the context menu of empty
> directories

This would be pretty nice. And then I suppose a dialog would come up asking 
the user which device (s)he wants to mount there. The only problem: where 
does KDE get a list of which devices can be mounted? Do all KDE-compatible 
platforms feature fstab files?

This would be a cool place to add loopback-device support as well (including 
encryption). :-)

> To easily find mount
> points one could add shortcuts to them on the desktop. Naturally those
> shortcuts should
> also have a contextmenu containing an "Unmount" or perhaps an "Eject" item.

In the current stable KDE this is the way it is done I think. The icons are 
put on the desktops by the distribution-specific configuration utilities.
In KDE CVS, KDE automatically puts icons on the desktop when media are 
mounted. This results in duplicate icons when both methods are combined.

I figure that ideally, there is some very accessible part of KDE where devices 
that are listed in fstab can be mounted in a straight-forward way. Mounting 
other devices and loopback-files should also be possible there, but maybe 
under an "advanced" tab or similar.

(I'm just tossing ideas here. When we have some idea of where this 
functionality should be, I will design UIs and try to code the functionality)

Best regards,

Marten Klencke
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