So I made a Device Notifier, thinking it would be on the panel.
Ummm.. has anyone asked the question... why doesn't Stan have the Device Notifier ALREADY in his KDE4 panel? It's there by *default*... unless you remove it from your default KDE4 panel. One simple way to get back to the default setup is to remove the panel at the bottom of your screen... then right click to add a new panel and select the default from the options (default or blank). Then the Device Notifier is included in the panel, and you should find it on the right hand side where the KMenu is, along with the Firefox icon etc. You can of course move it around if you want.. I put mine on the right side of the panel next to the clock. Then, whenever you plug in a USB key, this notifier will pop up from the panel and behave as everyone is describing. When you want to eject a USB key, you click the notifier, click the eject button in the notifier, and when it's ready to be removed, the Notifier icon changes to a green checkmark. Adding a Device Notifier manually is NOT how you should be working with it... and especially you should not use it on the desktop... as pointed out this adds very unnecessary clutter. Because the Desktop Notifier is a plasmoid, it can be used on the Desktop as any other plasmoid (as you discovered)... as a floating object, attached to various places... but a lot of that potential is not so useful since the Notifier doesn't work as efficiently in the other positions... it's really designed to be in the panel.
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)".
Agreed... the descriptions here are not so useful... room for improvement.
that are not improvements upon KDE3, but AT BEST simply barriers to a learning curve, and are often clumsy replacements for easy to use
Aw come on.. it's not hard to use. I'm an old fart, and I made the transition to KDE4 quite easily (and I use it for my job... I need a working desktop)... When I go back to KDE3 it feels old and dated.. and is missing a lot of the new features I've already become accustomed to in KDE4. You've just got frustrated.. and it's probably 99% your own doing... like the Device Notifier. It is there BY DEFAULT... you should NOT have to add it manually. If it's missing on your desktop then you removed it yourself or there is something broken in your config. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org