Version: (using KDE 4.1.2) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Hi, if you drag and drop a file onto the icon of an unmounted device in the left sidebar of dolphin, you get an error. The expected behavior would be to automatically mount the device and then interpret the drag-and-drop operation in the usual way.
Or, better, dolphin could inform the user that the device is not mountend and it should be asked if the user want to mount it (maybe with an extra option to remember the choice). I could be an interesting feature for 4.3 :-)
I am strictly against such a confirmation question, because it is totally unnecessary. Nobody will accidentially drop a file upon an unmounted device. And even if the user does, Dolphin will ask, wether the file should be copied or moved. Thus in any case, the user has the possibility to cancel his request. In a perfect world, mounting and unmounting shouldn't be managed by the user at all. The system should always do it automatically. I know it is technical issue, but the concept is totally redundant for the user. If the user plugs in his USB Stick, he/she already expressed his wish to access the data on it. Don't ask him to mount it, do it automatically. Plus, there is no performance penelity through having mounted devices which are not used. I could go on like this, but I think I made my point.
I agree that it should be automatically mounted.
How about situations where the device is not available? On my laptop I have a Places entry for another computer on my home network, but when I'm not home then that computer is not available. Should Dolphin cache the file until the device becomes available, or simply reject the action with an error?
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review-request: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106072/
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Git commit 824fa6a43734cf9ad2a690778c50bdaf76a1fb0e by Emmanuel Pescosta. Committed on 11/09/2012 at 20:17. Pushed by emmanuelp into branch 'master'. Mount unmounted devices, when a file is dropped upon it in places-panel. REVIEW: 106072 M +49 -1 dolphin/src/panels/places/placespanel.cpp M +5 -0 dolphin/src/panels/places/placespanel.h http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/824fa6a43734cf9ad2a690778c50bdaf76a1fb0e
Git commit 3f6cb83a324928601a71ca8a05d7a43b348c3fef by Emmanuel Pescosta. Committed on 11/09/2012 at 20:17. Pushed by emmanuelp into branch 'KDE/4.9'. Mount unmounted devices, when a file is dropped upon it in places-panel. REVIEW: 106072 FIXED-IN: 4.9.2 (cherry picked from commit 824fa6a43734cf9ad2a690778c50bdaf76a1fb0e) M +49 -1 dolphin/src/panels/places/placespanel.cpp M +5 -0 dolphin/src/panels/places/placespanel.h http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/3f6cb83a324928601a71ca8a05d7a43b348c3fef
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