Bug 168695 - actions in storage media notification missing
Summary: actions in storage media notification missing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-devicenotifier (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords:
: 175959 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-08-08 07:06 UTC by Fred Wells
Modified: 2010-08-07 14:14 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Description Fred Wells 2008-08-08 07:06:51 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

I'd really like to report this as a bug rather than a (wishlist) feature request, but that wouldn't be accurate. 

Anyway, the problem is that KDE4.1 is missing the "Storage Media Notifications" that were so very useful in KDE3.  I, for one, would love to see them return.
Comment 1 George Kiagiadakis 2008-08-09 01:04:23 UTC
Actually there is a device notifier plasmoid. Add it on your panel and put a cdrom in the drive. Doesn't this work for you?
Comment 2 Sergei Andreev 2008-08-09 20:21:37 UTC
Device Notifier is almost useless - it's hard to find wanted partition or device (Bug 168809), and DN does not notify me when I am pluging my player - Cowon D2,though new mounting point is added in Dolphin.
Comment 3 Fred Wells 2008-08-10 20:36:24 UTC
The current DN widget provides only simple notification.  What's missing is the ability to auto-launch applications (media player, ripper, etc.) as with kde3.  This is IMHO yet another step backwards in KDE's evolution.
Comment 4 claydoh 2008-10-14 16:28:19 UTC
For me this is the one thing I truly lack from KDE3. I don't necessarily care for the popup notification in KDE3, but being able to set some auto launch options is missed.
Comment 5 Daniel 2008-10-21 22:16:19 UTC
Me too, I would like to be able to add my own Options as I could with KDE3.
e.g. Attach a script that mounts the drive with pmount and renames/downloads pictures from a camera.
Comment 6 Jonathan Thomas 2008-11-24 13:40:30 UTC
*** Bug 175959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Franco Pellegrini 2008-11-24 16:47:29 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 8 Jopa 2008-12-18 20:53:11 UTC
The DN does not simply let me mount, just gives option to open in dolphin, I would use it if I could just mount a drive from the widget.

Thanks for your work
Comment 9 Ricardo 2009-02-16 19:55:31 UTC
Also it would be great if you could specify a default action for devices, so in the device manager, instead of opening the popup (1 click) and selecting the desired action (another click), you could click a small button (as the eject) to open the default action
Comment 10 campos.pauloaleixo 2009-05-31 01:30:06 UTC
First I want to support the KDE4 team for all the work they made building the more-than-recognized brilliant KDE3, and support them in the efforth they are making building the new KDE4.

That said, I would also like to have some configuration options in Device Notifier: use Konqueror instead of Dolphin, configure automatic actions, etc
Comment 11 aftertaf 2009-09-30 07:28:59 UTC
I would like to know if kde 4.3.1 has the option of 'just mounting' via the device notifier, or whether it's better to do this in fstab as per pure linux....

Great work guys, it gets better with every X.Y release :)
Comment 12 greatbunzinni 2009-10-09 10:37:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> I would like to know if kde 4.3.1 has the option of 'just mounting' via the
> device notifier, or whether it's better to do this in fstab as per pure
> linux....
> 
> Great work guys, it gets better with every X.Y release :)

I've just upgraded to 4.3.2 and that option isn't available. I believe that all the problems described across all these replies would go away if device notifier enabled the users to configure the actions according to their personal taste. Unfortunately, and uncharacteristically, it appears that DN doesn't offers any configuration besides setting the shortcut key, which is a bit of a let down.
Comment 13 Patrick Mansfield 2009-10-11 20:32:21 UTC
I'm running Fedora 11 with KDE 4.3.1.

I set the "file manager" started by the device notifier to just run a shell script via the <cough> kde "system settings", general tab, personal "default applications", then select "file manager", and then you can click "other" and then the "..." on the right. Then fill in the path to the script (or select whatever application you want to use).

I created a simple bash script as follows, so that a KDE konsole is opened in
the directory where the drive is mounted (using "konsole" as the file manager
should do this too, but that doesn't work right). You could do nothing, take
action based on the mount point (the mount point is the same as the label name
of the partition, at least for my USB mass storage devices with a fat file
system, man dosfslabel), or pretty much anything you want.

I usually use the command line copy over selected files, sometimes I manually
select what to copy, so I don't want to automatically copy everything.

Script:

#! /bin/bash
# Use as the "file manager", it is passed the directory of the mount point
exec konsole --workdir $1
Comment 14 Jacopo De Simoi 2009-11-01 11:59:57 UTC
in 4.4 the dn allows to mount/unmount only 
Device actions will be exposed in the configuration window as well, as per popular request.
Given this, can we close this wish?
Thanks
Comment 15 greatbunzinni 2009-11-01 21:10:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> in 4.4 the dn allows to mount/unmount only 
> Device actions will be exposed in the configuration window as well, as per
> popular request.
> Given this, can we close this wish?
> Thanks

Was KDE 4.4 released yet?
Comment 16 Jacopo De Simoi 2009-11-01 23:36:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)

> Was KDE 4.4 released yet?

No, that's why I asked. If this wish accounts for something more than what I listed, then we might consider this "something else" for inclusion in 4.4.
Else, we can close the bug.
Comment 17 aftertaf 2009-11-02 09:41:37 UTC
Hi,

For me the wish was just that, to be able to mount without any other
application opening..
So this is good :)

Is 4.4 available in project neon nightly builds yet?






                                                                           
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--- Comment #16 from Jacopo De Simoi <wilderkde gmail com>  2009-11-01
23:36:06 ---
(In reply to comment #15)

> Was KDE 4.4 released yet?

No, that's why I asked. If this wish accounts for something more than what
I
listed, then we might consider this "something else" for inclusion in 4.4.
Else, we can close the bug.

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Comment 18 Ricardo 2010-08-07 14:07:41 UTC
I also think this bug was solved with 4.4. Please close it