Mounting media - 8.10 Intrepid

[Willy Hamra]

2008/11/9 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/9 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>> How does the mdia mounting in 8.10 Intrepid work?
>
> I think that it is still done with hal, but hal has changed (and taken
> on new responsibilities) in *buntu 8.10.
>
>> It seems that it mounts when the taskbar icon 'Renectly mounted media (or something like that) is
>> clicked and then the item itself is clicked - which then opens it it Dolphin?!!
>
> Why not? Aren't you opening a direcotry? Are you suggesting that
> Kubuntu should recognize it as a video DVD and give an option to open
> in a media player? If so, that does sound logical and you (or I) can
> file a bug.
>

it used to display a window in KDE3 showing us multiple options.
and, when i insert anything, USB disk, cd, or anything, the recently
*somethng* media plasmoid, notifies me, once i click it, the media
gets mounted, and dolphin starts. but if i don't click it, the media
would still be unmounted, and i can't browse with konqueror to it, i
have to manually mount it in a konsole, which is a pain. i have
konqueror set as default app for handling directories, and all apps
respect this and open folders in konqi, except this plasmoid which
fires up dolphin! i want the media to be either automagically mounted,
or given a list of options to what we want to do. if the KDE team
decided that the list of options i bad, or windows-like and so dropped
it. maybe they can put such a feature in the plasmoid?

>> Why is thee no
>> option about how or with what to open it? I wanted to watch a DVD and had to first open Xine then
>>  play the DVD.
>> Also, how does one unmount a mounted media?
>
> By right-clicking on the icon. I remember it being this way in KDE 3.x
> as well. How else would you prefer it to be?

uhm.. what icon? it used to show on Desktop, and i was able to
righ-click mount/unmount, this used to be very handy, butwith
theremoval of the Desktop, this feature is lost. the only way to
unmount is through dolphin, a menu in the left upper corner of the
display space. this option should be included in konqueror.

>
>> There is no 'safely remove' menu item anywhere. I did
>> find in Dolphin an entry for the DVD and could right click on that and choose' Eject' but as soon
>> as the DVD drawer opened it closed again - one needs to have real good reflexes to get the disk
>> out before the drawer closes again!
>>
>
> My system leaves the drawer open. Sounds like a bug.
>

same here. ejected media, no matter what app is doing the ejection,
the drawer goes straight back! this is not a hardware issue since the
eject button on the case works fine, and windows doesn't have this as
well.

>> Really wanted to like Intrepid but I think I shall wait until January when KDE 4.2 comes out.
>
> That really is the best idea. KDE 4.1 is workable but buggy. KDE 4.2
> is the first KDE 4.x that is meant to be feature complete.
>

nice to hear, can't wait :-)

>> Or perhaps I will install another WM - maybe Xfce and then just use the KDE apps that I like/need.
>
> XFCE is pretty decent if you are looking for a full-time switch. But
> if you just want something temporary until KDE 4.2 then I suggest that
> you stick with KDE 3.5.10.
>

what's wrong with GNOME? i haven't tried XFCE yet, but GNOME seems
good enough, and runs KDE4 apps brilliantly

>> P.S. Shame that they have crippled Konqueror in KDE 4.xxx
>
> It's not crippled, but it is not feature complete. Please tell me what
> you feel is missing so that I can file bugs. Thanks!
>
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