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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Mounting Media
From:       Joseph Wenninger <jowenn () jowenn ! at>
Date:       2002-07-19 6:12:06
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Hi

>
> 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.
>
.................
>
> 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.
>

Did you look at the devices:// url ? It had been called mycomputer:// but many 
people (mostly developers) where against that naming. It works with konqueror 
and should work in file dialogs too

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

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