Odd behaviour of Dolphin with pendrives

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 18:31 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
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>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 07:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> >> > 1) No auto pop-up. This is probably a setting somewhere
>> and hence my
>> >> > fault. For now I just click on the drive icon in the
>> Kickoff menu,
>> >> > though a nudge in the right direction would be
>> appreciated.
>> >> >
>> >> If you use the device notifier on the panel to mount it, 
you
>> get a popup
>> >> showing your options, such as to open in dolphin, 
download
>> pictures, etc.
>> > 
>> > True. Unfortunately the exact same menu pops up when you 
want
>> to unmount
>> > it. This makes no sense. Furthermore, after mounting there 
is
>> no change
>> > whatever to the apparent state seen in the notifier. It
>> doesn't say
>> > where the device is mounted, or even that is mounted at 
all,
>> i.e. there
>> > is no way to distingsuih (using this window) if the device 
is
>> mounted or
>> > not.
>> 
>> I don't see this behavior. I click on a media entry and I 
get
>> asked what to do. I click on the "eject" icon to unmount it 
and
>> no window pops up.
> 
> This is true when you click on the entry under Kickoff-
>Computer, or on
> the icon under the Places menu. When you click on the 
Notifier entry you
> do get a popup (at least I do).
I don't use kickoff and the notifier didn't pop up a window. 
Configuration difference?

> (Also, the Notifier text is misleading. It refers to "Devices 
recently
> plugged in", but I also see my external USB hard drive which 
is never
> unplugged and has been there since boot time. It should 
really say
> "Removable devices")
Agreed.

>> There is a tiny icon drawn on the entry as
>> to whether the media is mounted or not. See the attached
>> screenshot for the difference.
> 
> I would argue that it's not very visible, but that's a matter 
of taste.
Yeah. KDE3 had just a tiny green arrow overlayed on the icon. 
This is an improvement, but not the best it could be.

- --Ben

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