On 10/5/2010 9:37 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 05:32:39 pm Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
On 10/5/2010 11:21 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
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?
Try clicking on the notifier and then the listed device.
Interestingly, I spent an entertaining half hour last night clicking on the Device Notifier popup, with no reaction from it whatever, and searching fruitlessly for some sign that a stick had appeared. It did list the stick I had inserted. Go figure.
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.
If the DN is running in the "Tray", there is a little up arrow next to the clock (in the typical setup) and some icons are hidden under that arrow to save room. Click arrow, a list of applications shows up, Click DN, and it will pop up. You don't have to unplug and plug again.
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.
Its also rather obtuse to add a function to the list. If your device is the slightest bit non-standard (such as a read-only iPhone) you get virtually no choices, and no clues on how to modify the list of actions.
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".
This is due to a total rewrite of how removable devices are handled as best as I can tell. It seems to me that they tossed this out of kernel space and threw it into userland, and that is where DN lives. But I could be totally wrong about this. Automount and its ugly friends was the old way, and it didn't play well with newer devices.
I don't find a way to unmount the stick. Is there one?
If you see the stick and have accessed it, you can click the little eject icon in the device notifier.
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.
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