On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > rgheck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to write a little desktop file that will allow me just to > > mount newly inserted devices, rather than to open them with Dolphin. I > > can see roughly how to do this, but have two questions: > > > > (i) Is there some local place one can put such files, instead of > > /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/? I've tried putting the file in > > .kde/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/, but that didn't work, and I also > > tried .kde/share/apps/solid/actions/. > > I would've expected > .kde/share/apps/solid/actions/ > to work like the system-provided > /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ > > > (ii) How on earth would one go about just mounting the device? Is there > > some call to hal or whatever that can be made? > > I think so, gnome-mount (don't let the name fool you) is one way. The Device Notifier should (but doesn't) have an option to do this. I filed a bug about it some time back: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192671 poc