At 07:52:54 on Sunday Sunday 13 December 2009, Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@attglobal.net> wrote:
If you click on the <device notifier> plasmoid you will see the usb stick. If you move the cursor to the righ side an upper arrow shows up. Click on it and the usb is umounted. If the device is a dvd, the dvd will be ejected.
-=terry=-
I crave indulgence in expressing some of my feelings after investigating the meaning of this welcome advice. To those who wish to flame me, I can only say "it won't help, do your damndest". <rant>The upside is that now I now what the deuce a plasmoid is; before I knoew only that it had something to do with strange magnetic phenomena. Kudos (that starts with a "K") to KDE for giving it a new meaning, without explaining what it is. So a plasmoid is a kind of widget. So I made a Device Notifier, thinking it would be on the panel. But instead, it is placed at an apparently random position on the desktop (not the Desktop Folder, of course. I can see that making a number of them could be used to produce a satisfying mess on the screen. It has two levels of useful commands, but it isn't clear why those are listed under "Plain Desktop", since no other kind of desktop is mentioned. Then I discovered (I don't know how) that the Device Notifier can be attached to the "Desktop Folder". Then I inserted a USB stick, and sure enough the familiar window appeared to ask me what to do with the device: D/L with Digikam, Open with File Manager (it means to say Dolphin; that requires a password for some reason; it is a substitute for "Open a new window" -- why do I need a password for that?), or Do Nothing.By the way, I do not see anything about a USB stick in the Device Notifier. Dolphin is great! On the left side of the window it lists five drives, four of which are identified as "Volume (ext4)". It was too hard to give partition IDs like sda7 or even size, or whether mounted or not. I know that the fifth one is the USB stick, because it is "Volume (vfat)". I am very discouraged, because this monstrosity is filled with changes that are not improvements upon KDE3, but AT BEST simply barriers to a learning curve, and are often clumsy replacements for easy to use procedures, entirely for the sake of introducing new gewgaws. I do not know what the members of the KDE are smoking or drinking, but what they have done is to produce a whore's dream (or nightmare) from a useful and usable, reasonably user-friendly desktop environment. And their excuse is that, since you didn't pay for it, you were never entitled to be polled about your preferences or desires, and you can lump it. That's fascism. In fact, no sane employer would have paid them a salary for turning out something like KDE4. I notice that KDE3 on my other machine still works. Why to abandon it? It should have been offered as an alternative, sorry that it wasn't. My choice is between v11.1 w/KDE3 or v11.2 w?GNOME. KDE4 is out; the past, NOT the future. </rant> -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org