Bug 111173

Summary: let konqueror automatically mount the CDROM and other removable media when /media is browsed
Product: [Unmaintained] kio Reporter: charles buyondo <buyondoc>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdebugs, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description charles buyondo 2005-08-21 01:57:52 UTC 
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".
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-08-22 04:25:26 UTC 
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)
Comment 2 Kevin Ottens 2005-08-22 09:58:42 UTC 
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.
Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-08-22 13:15:27 UTC 
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.
Comment 4 Nicolas Goutte 2005-08-23 12:51:56 UTC 
See also bug #80033
Comment 5 charles buyondo 2005-08-26 14:54:01 UTC 
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.
Comment 6 Luke Sandell 2005-09-30 06:16:05 UTC 
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.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 21:16:31 UTC 
Doesn't seem likely, sorry. Mount behavior is and should be configured in Plasma itself.