Gnome vs KDE
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Thu Mar 24 00:29:47 UTC 2005
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
>
>> FWIW, the CD drive mounting problem is not confined to Fedora Core
>> distribution. In FC2 using a KDE 3.2 variant, I simply cannot mount
>> either of my CD-ROM or CD-RW drives. A few days ago, running a Gnome
>> desktop I downloaded and burned a LiveCD distribution named
>> SimplyMEPIS which uses KDE3.3 on top of a Debian distribution.
>> I was able to boot from the LiveCd in the CD-RW drive without any
>> problems but could not then mount the CD-ROM. One conspicuous
>> difference between the KDE desktop MEPIS was the placement of CD
>> drive icons on the desktop compared to having CD drives buried in
>> submenus on the KDE (and Gnome) desktop(s) in FC2.
>>
> I'd like to hope that everyone complaining of this issue has filed
> appropriate bug reports.
>
Thanks, Arthur! I had not filed a bug report on inability to mount CD
drives while running the KDE desktop since FC2 is so near Fedora EOL,
the problem first occurred on my RH 8.0 system, and I suspected that
Fedora Bugzilla searches would be as worthless as my fedora-list archive
searches with the archive search engine. But, on your gentle prodding I
proceeded to file a bug report anyway until I reached the point of
inputing specific message text.
I logged off the gnome desktop and started a KDE desktop session, stuck
a CD in /mnt/cdrom/ (CD-RW drive) and VOILA!! The drive automounted.
Trying to stick a music CD in /mnt/cdrom1/ (CD-ROM drive), I found the
drive already mounted. Replacing that CD with a music CD and after
adjusting some sound preferences I am now listening to music while
composing this mail.
Baffling is an understatement here. I have made no changes to my system
setup. No updates have been applied since I last logged into a KDE
desktop session. The only thing that I can think of which might
distinguish this experience from earlier attempts to use the desktop is
that I had left a CD in the /mnt/cdrom1 device.
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