Drive icons on desktop

[Larry Hartman]

On Monday 17 December 2007 03:36:13 am O. Sinclair wrote:
> Larry Hartman wrote:
> > On Friday 14 December 2007 06:39:20 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> Derek Broughton wrote:
> >>> Nils Kassube wrote:
> >>>> Larry Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> I am not here referring to the CD/DVD icon, which does work "as
> >>>>> advertised" but to the harddrive icons which should be fairly
> >>>>> permanent on the desktop when kcontrol has them set to appear when
> >>>>> mounted.  My original post failed to specify to which ones I was
> >>>>> referring.
> >>>>
> >>>> K-menu -> system settings -> Look & Feel / Desktop -> Behaviour ->
> >>>> Device Icons -> check "Mounted Dard Disk Volume".
> >>>
> >>> Yes - but if they only appear when the CD/DVD is mounted, that is
> >>> _very_ odd behaviour.  I think the default setting is to _not_ show
> >>> harddrive icons at all and you can choose to always show them, or only
> >>> when mounted, but mounting another device should make no difference.
> >>
> >> If that is what happens, it is really odd. But I understood it in a way
> >> that the hard drive icons are missing and only the CD/DVD icons appear.
> >> Maybe I misunderstood what happens ...
> >>
> >>
> >> Nils
> >
> > Yes, I checked the boxes to have the icons show when mounted....only show
> > when CD/DVD is mounted......so I qualify as odd, nothing new to see here,
> > move along....
> >
> >
> >
> > Larry
>
> I have the same behaviour, the icons only show when I use a usb or CD or
> something (even a usb camera actually) but not otherwise. Running 7.10
> with all updates.
>
> Sinclair

So you are saying that I am "normal" and not "odd?"  I just went ahead and 
made symlinks of the drives to the desktop and turned the checkboxes off.

Larry