Dapper removable media (cd, dvd) KDE Daemon argh!

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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Can anyone tell me how to get kde to always silently (no pop-up) wait
for a user or user initiated application to try to access ANY/ALL
removable media before doing anything with it???

Preferably without losing any path to device data that kde applications
might need to find the durned thing when a user selects "open cd" or
"open dvd" menu choices???

For the most part I've become addicted to kubuntu. It has become my most
commonly used linux on my multi-boot pc.

However there are a few issues. And automount/autorun processes are among
the most annoying of them. I can't remember what I did to Breezy to get
it to stop trying to automatically open a cd/dvd when I'd put one in one
of the drives (dvd-rom or cd-rw). But once it stopped I was happy with
the result. I could put ANY cd, data or music, or dvd in one of the
drives and except for the lights on the drive itself got absolutely no
reason to think the pc even knew the media was there until I tried to
access it with an application (kscd, kaffeine, k3b) or mount command. 
Then so long as the media was compatible with what I was trying to open
it with, it just worked...

Then I did an apt-get upgrade to dapper. And somethings were different.
SOME are better. Some are annoying, like these pop-up KDE Daemon windows
asking me what to do with the "new medium" it's detected...

I remember trying the configure button and trying to find a
configuration that would ignore all types of new media. which "sort of"
worked until my most recent apt-get upgrade which included some kde
defaults package <sigh> Now I got the pop-ups back.

Which might not be such a bad thing this time. Because I remember that
after I got rid of them via the configure button, kscd became unable to
find the cd regardless of which drive it was in, and every time I wanted
to open a music cd with {a new session of} kaffeine, I had to specify the
drive path (/dev/hdd or /dev/hdb worked...) before it could find the cd,
which wasn't quite the behavior I wanted.  But once I stopped getting the
pop-ups, I didn't know how to get to where the configure button sent me
to try any other possible settings...

I just want kubuntu/KDE to ALWAYS wait til I issue a command or use an
application to access whatever I put in the drive before trying to guess
what I want done, and I do NOT want pop-ups asking me what to do every
time it notices some new media. And if possible I'd like to be sure that
NO application on any removable media gets automatically run [EVER].
Though I might want to be able to run one manually when I'm sure I trust
the said application enough to do so...

I'm hopeful that there is a way to tell it this, that won't need to be
redone every time I upgrade with apt-get...

Thanks!


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