Actually for KDE4.0 and KDE 4.1 you can't configure your notification. It will
be done.

It's strange normally it should work.

And if you choose to open with dolphin, dolphin open the cd?

I waited until 4.1 to see if it is OK there. Strangely enough, at least in my
openSuse 11.0, notifier does not react on audio-cds any more at all. For DVD,
cd-rom and usb-storages it offers only "Open with dolphin" and not
play/copy/rip/download with digicam or similar. 

How does the notifier actually work? I think it uses some .dektop files to
choose it actions. Where? Before it seemed to look for the desktop files in
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/ and now not any more, but maybe I
am wrong.

I understand that configuring the applet via GUI will be available in kde 4.2.
But is there any way to influence its behavior now? Some rc-file or some line
in some other configuration files? Desktop files in some specific folder? 

The device notifier is a very nice thing and I would love to get it work before
next february (of course myabe there is something wrong in my system - some
upgrade destroyed something or so. Anyway it  would be-good to understand it, I
have not found any documentation anywhere.)

greetings,
tarmo

you can find the predicates used to display actions in :

$KDEDIR/share/apps/solid/actions/test-predicate-openinwindow.desktop for example

It seems that it doesn't show audio CDs at all in 4.1 or trunk.

Created an attachment (id=27026) [details]
Desktop file to open audio cd with Device Notifier

Place it to $KDEDIR/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/

Created an attachment (id=27027) [details]
Desktop file for opening audio CD with Device Notifier

Place it to /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ (or similar)

(In reply to comment #4)
> It seems that it doesn't show audio CDs at all in 4.1 or trunk.
> 

Hello!

As I have understood, what the notifier shows, depends on the .desktop files 
in folder $KDEDIR/share/apps/solid/actions/
(/usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ in my case). So far there is nothing more
than test-predicate-openinwindow.desktop written by Alexis Menard that handles
only storeage devices.   Likely the notifier used in earlier versions (kde
4.04) some desktop files from kde3 directories but now not any more.

So one should write additional .desktop files to that directory (I guess
Amarok2 etc will do it automatically). Using example of
http://kollide.net:8060/browse/DragonPlayer/misc/dragonplayer-opendvd.desktop?r=17116
and some info from
http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/solid/html/classSolid_1_1OpticalDisc.html
I managed to write the .desktop files that manage your audio cd. For me it
worked fine. I attache the files, place to the folder
/usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ , retsart kde and see if it helps.

Alexis, maybe it helped other users to make such files (including actions for
dvd, camera etc) available? As the 'X-KDE-Solid-Predicate' variable in desktop
file is actually hard to understand?

tarmo

In fact each application should add a desktop file for an action. the
installation path is $KDEDIR/share/apps/solid/actions/ and the notifier will
add this action if the predicate match to the device.

This predicate is a solid predicate. In the doc you can find how construct a
predicate. I haven't take a look in the Suse desktop they add because actually
in trunk there is only the test predicate. I talk to lot of developpers in
aKademy because they have to add .desktop in application.

Using KDE 4.2 beta 2 (4.1.85) I can't see Audio CD notifications and isn't
showed in the Device notifier applet or Dolphin "places", then I can't play
audio CDs in Amarok 2 (I haven't tested Amarok 1.x), VLC, etc. 

Only I'm able to access to the audio CD data when I'm using the Audio CD player
"KsCD" and K3b (a KDE 3 application). I haven't tried to mount manually the CD.

*** Bug 178814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created an attachment (id=29686) [details]
CD and DVD predicates for Device notifier KDE 4.x

Extract the content to $KDEDIR/share/apps/solid/actions/

I agree with Alexis that "each application should add a desktop file for an
action" but as far they have not done it, I have written for myself predicates
that handle audio-CDs and video-DVDs (when you insert a Cd or DVD, device
notifier offers 'Open with Amarok', 'Copy with K3b' etc). I attache an archive
with these files. Extract them to /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ and I
hope it helps.

I did not manage to write a predicate for a photo-camera thoug (it has to use
some paramters for the Solid::Camera class but I did not get it. Please see
http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/solid/html/classSolid_1_1Camera.html
if anyone can help.

But generally: Device notifier is great! Thanks, Alexis!

I have just tried to play an audio CD, in KDE 4.1.2 on Mandriva 2009) and
cannot because it is not detected (mounted).  If I reboot into KDE3 then it is
detected and plays fine in amarok 1.4.

(In reply to comment #13)
> I have just tried to play an audio CD, in KDE 4.1.2 on Mandriva 2009) and
> cannot because it is not detected (mounted).  If I reboot into KDE3 then it is
> detected and plays fine in amarok 1.4.
> 

Try to download the archive above and put file
amarok-play-audiocd-predicate.desktop to your
/usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/ (and why not all the other files in the
package), maybe you need logout-login from kde and device notifier should offer
then "x actions for this device" when you insert an audio-cd.
I think the way device notifier handles the media is much more elegant and
flexible than the icons and dialogs in kde 3.5.x, I personally like it a lot.

The question is just, when will the applications write their own predicates
that the notifier can read. It is clear that it will not happen to KDE3
applications, so the volunteers' help and spreading possible predicate.desktop
could fill the gap!

ok, so this has nothing to do with plasma really at all, but individual
applications. what i'm going to do is write a blog entry urging app devs to
write those .desktop files.

I can also confirm this bug

The directory where you place the .desktop files in KDE 4.2 appears to be
/usr/share/apps/solid/actions (Archlinux default install)