Version: 3.4.2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Compiler: gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2) OS: Linux Right now, to mount the CDROM from Konqueror for example, one has to put "media:/hdb/" in the location window assuming the CDROM device is hdb. But the "files-system" still has /media/cdrom0. Note the missing ":" in the latter. Now when a newbie (with the knowledge that the cdrom is at "/media/cdrom0"), uses a multimedia application to play files on a CDROM, and uses the file selector to see what lies under "/media/cdrom0", he will find nothing listed until the CDROM is mounted or till he selects "Storage Media", which mounts the CDROM. While this is OK to a savvy user, a newbie will think Linux is faulty since the contents of "/media/cdrom0" will be missing. I suggest that the CDROM device gets mounted the moment an attempt is made to browse the contents of "/media/cdrom0".
Kevin, what is your take on this? My first reaction would be to say this is the distro's or the admin's job to properly set an automounting filesystem, since there doesn't seem to be any shortage of them. But it would be an interesting feature. I just wonder if we should write yet-another-automounter inside KIO. (I'm leaving it assigned to kio/general)
My take on this, is that a user knowing that a CDROM device is available throught /media/cdrom0 is not a newbie. But well, newbie or not it could be interesting to have. The problem is that it would mean rewriting yet another automounter. Moreover in most case the user will be stuck because he'll have to unmount the medium to eject it for example... that means modifying kio file a lot IMHO, which sounds as a bad idea imho. For me it's a WONTFIX, I don't close it this way since it's assigned to kio/general, but I doubt that I'll be the one implementing this.
In fact, I thought that if anyone would implement this, it would be you :-) Reassigning to the default owner for further consideration. Kévin says WONTFIX.
See also bug #80033
I suggest the following: Let "/media" be auto-magically changed to "media:/ in Konqueror's location or in the file selector if the user types "/media" and some devices are not mounted. A dialogue could inform the user that some devices are not mounted and ask whether they should be mounted or not.
Actually, if you are using ivman, the directories inside /media can appear and disappear automagically. But this doesn't help the problem of not being able to mount them from there.
Doesn't seem likely, sorry. Mount behavior is and should be configured in Plasma itself.