Bug 158938

Summary: Provide open with ... in the device notifier applet
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: András Manţia <amantia>
Component: widget-devicenotifierAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alan.christopher.jenkins, giuliocamuffo, teo, toddrme2178, wilderkde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description András Manţia 2008-03-07 22:25:55 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)

The New Device Notifier opens the mounted devices only in Dolphin. In case I don't like Dolphin, I cannot use the applet. Please provide either a setting to select the default application, or an Open With context menu to select an application that can handle the device.
Comment 1 Hans Chen 2008-03-09 22:46:11 UTC
I'm not a fan of context menus. What do you think of a triangular expander? "What?", you may ask. Please see this mockup I which I made a long time ago: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Extender%3A+Mounted+Devices?content=53086
(Press "Download" for an explanation in my poor English. :D)

Note that the a new mounted device's actions are automatically expanded.

I posted this in Alexis' blog but don't know if he noticed it or not.
Comment 2 Alan Jenkins 2008-10-10 12:37:40 UTC
This should be handled by file associations.

If you go to file associations in System Settings (under "Advanced"), you will see an "inode" type.  I managed to change the default file browser to Konqueror by changing the settings on the "inode/directory" type; maybe you will have to change "inode/mountpoint" in your case though.

But the real bug is that  "Default applications" is missing a "File browser" option.  As well as allowing switch between Konqueror and Dolphin, this would allow crazy things like using Nautilus, Firefox, a terminal emulator, or even the Midnight Commander.
Comment 3 Jonathan Thomas 2008-12-22 19:40:49 UTC
*** Bug 178488 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-22 21:13:10 UTC
the behaviour has been fixed; the visible string is waiting on 4.3 when we can change user visible strings again.
Comment 5 Nicolas L. 2009-02-28 00:26:17 UTC
*** Bug 181257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Giulio Camuffo 2009-11-19 17:18:19 UTC
fixed in 4.4