Stan Goodman said the following on 10/05/2010 11:21 AM:
KDE is v4.4.4.
When a USB stick or an optical disk is inserted, Devce Notifier pops up to tell me that this has happened, and then pops down again. As far as I can see, nothing else happens: Nowhere am I asked what I want to do with the thing (eg, mount, ignore, or anything else), nor do I see any difference in the Konqueror file browser. indicating the presence of a new device. I assume that I just don't know where to look, although I spent a bit of time yesterday searching.
What am I supposed to do next, knowing that the device I had just inserted, is in fact inserted?
Hello again Stan. Since some time ago Linux has supported automatic mounting and un-mounting of removable devices (just like Windows :-) ). I'm sure someone will tell you the exact revision. What you are supposed to do next is tell the UI what you want done. When I click again on the device notifier it tells me of all the devices I have plugged in, phone, CDs USB stick, PCMCIA cards ... You need to tell it which you want to deal with. Click on one. The, depending, it will off you a choice of what you want to do: * open it in a file browser such as Kong or Dolphin * download photos ... * with digicam * with gwenview * play music * play video ... or various other options depending on what it contains, what programs you have and what your MIME settings are. This seems perfectly reasonable to me. After all, what's on the device may logically be a video, but physically its a collection of files. If the notifier *did* open those files/folders in your Konqueror when in fact you wanted to play the video, I'm sure you'd be irritated and would complain about the software making decisions for you that you didn't want. -- shin (n): A device for finding furniture in the dark. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org