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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Mounting Media
From:       Christoph Held <c-held () web ! de>
Date:       2002-07-18 23:54:08
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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 20:06, Marten Klencke wrote:
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> 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?
There are some additional problems: First you cannot expect that the desktop 
is visible (it could be hidden by an application). The normal behavior is to 
run a app and use the open file dialog to access a floppy or cdrom. Second - 
as far as I know some media cannot be mountet at all (e.g. PDA, cameras, CDRW 
). Also attached devices could be disconnected,  without unmounting - 
resulting in lost data.  
>
> 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?
>
I have problems to see how a neat and easy solution would look like. On the 
other hand apple mounted devices, didn't it? IMHO the best way would be, to 
handle all access to removable devices through kio-slaves. One cdrom:// one  
floppy:// and a myComputer:// that list all io slaves that make sense, and  
hides the scary root directory. 
http://home.in.tum.de/~held/konq.png
http://home.in.tum.de/~held/dialog.png
Unfortunatly the cdrom:// does not exist and I have no idea how much work it 
would be.

> 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 :-) ?

Greetings

Christoph

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