Removable media handling in KDE on FC4

[Fabio Comolli]

You can add the storage media applet to the taskbar. Removable media
can then "safely removed" from there.

Hope this helps.
Fabio



On 2/24/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking at putting FC4 on selected desktops here and I'm
> investigating how it handles USB sticks and the like.  (Most of the
> machines are running FC3 and everyone uses KDE.)
>
> So I logged in as a test user and inserted a USB stick.  I was pleased
> to see the window appear asking what should be done with it.  So I
> opened it in a window, looked around and closed the window.  Now what?
> The device is mounted; unplugging it would be bad.  There's no desktop
> icon indicating that it's mounted (and none indicating an unmounted
> device either).  Yes, desktop behavior is set to display mounted and
> unmounted removable media.
>
> If you look in the file manager and click on the right combination of
> tabs, the USB device shows up as a hard disk named sda1 and can be
> unmounted from there.  Unfortunately my users will never comprehend
> that.
>
> My guess is that this has something to do with the missing HAL support
> in KDE.  Is there any way to improve things?  Should I look to
> KDE-Redhat's packages?
>
>  - J<
>
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