Comment # 6 on bug 1044864 from Felix Miata

(In reply to Yasuhiko Kamata from comment #5)
> I think what you want is "kwikdisk" (included in "kdeutils3" package).
> This applet tracks current mount status regularly (every 60 seconds by
> default) and can unmount if needed.

I've been having kdeutils3 installed in (open)SUSE since v8.0. I've been
unmounting as root, no small inconvenience. I never knew what kwikdisk was,
expecting such functionality to be a default system tray object. It's good to
know what kwikdisk is.

Now that I've opened it I see it has the same defect as KDE4 & 5 (which it says
is intentional):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297219
In that bug x-gvfs-hide is suggested but it's missing from man pages for mount
and fstab.

> But because this applet does not have an ability to acquire a privilege,
> it must be started with "root". Otherwise, unmount will fail.

:(

> If you want to improve this app, please help us by sending a patch.

I'm no a programmer. Not having this is reason to switch to TDE, but that's a
reason to not remain an openSUSE faithful, unless TDE is count as an upstream.
Otherwise, there is no upstream for KDE3.

Nothing is resolved, as features.opensuse.org is deprecated. This is the only
available place for KDE3 "wishlist" tracking.