Stan Goodman said the following on 10/05/2010 12:37 PM:
Now, however, I click on the only device, again a stick. Doing so causes three items to appear, about photographs, I think (one has to be very fast, because the popup pops down if you don't do something before DN loses patience, and you can't bring it back except by removing and reinserting the stick -- I am not enthusiastic about this behavior). I opened DN's setting, but didn't see immediately anything about changing it.
Perhaps there is a time-delay setting somewhere, because so long as I have the mouse/pointer OVER the popup it stays up.
Personally, I could do without the assumption that I want to do specific actions, like view pictures in Digicom; that's like the typical Windows behavior of trying to outguess you.
Indeed, that's why you have the choice of which application to use. Its not trying to outguess you, just offering what's appropriate. Let me put it this way: if it *always* opened the files in a browser, you would be complaining when you put in a music CD that it was incorrectly second-guessing you.
I am also not clear what operating advantage is bestowed by the Device Notifier, in comparison to the kde3 behavior (opening in the file manager), where the stick was ready as soon as it was inserted. Except, of course, that this is "the future of computing".
I you bothered looking, for example at the system logs, you would see that the device *is* available as soon as it is inserted. It is automounted. As or "future", well, as I said, wasn't this automounting what Windows was doing in the last century?
I don't find a way to unmount the stick. Is there one?
How picky are you? I just remove it. If you are picky, there is a down arrow beside the device in the notifier popup, if you look, and when you mouseover it says "Click to safely remove the device". Is that what you meant?
I eventually put a notifier widget on my desktop to have ready access.
Very good idea. The reason there is plenty of room for another icon for a gizmo that doesn't seem to add anything to operability.
The wonderful thing about KDE4 is that it offers so much in the way of _active_ widget and applets that you can choose from to customise the behaviour of the UI. And these widgets are so easy to write ... And you can write them in perl, javascript, ruby or php No need for C or C++ Heck with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperKaramba this can be retrofitted to KDE3. See also http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/SuperKaramba#Creating_the_Them... Ruby is a nice HLL to work in http://playtype.net/past/2008/12/13/writing_linux_desktop_apps_with_ruby_and... So if you don't like the way the device notifier works. write your own. -- "We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org