Bug 218517 - More control over mounting devices
Summary: More control over mounting devices
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 4.3
Platform: openSUSE Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2009-12-13 14:24 UTC by H.H.
Modified: 2023-01-11 05:19 UTC (History)
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Description H.H. 2009-12-13 14:24:08 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

It is good, that kde-4 allows complex hal conditions and delivers good defaults, but there needs to be more control over actions, that should be done. Also only few people will be able to define the conditions manually.

1. I think it is really important to be able to specify mount options for mounting devices from kde (device notifier), reasons are

- problems with access rights (mostly for fat file systems)
- encoding problems (mostly for fat file systems) 

I have problems with both. Access-rights, because I don't want to access my external usb drive (fat) as user only, but also from apache/mysql for example. And I also had encoding problems with german umlauts (even if these were a result of different opensuse- and/or kde-versions mounting drives with different options in the past).

I think this problem could be solved by adding more parameters like mount options to "kioclient exec", which is used in systemsettings for control. 

2. It would also be fine to add a parameter to "just mount" the device without opening it in the file-manager.

3. Another problem is, that it is not possible to define default actions (or did I miss something?). Sometimes I don't want the device notifier to notify me about a device (or to show it only, when it was already connected), but to do a default action like mounting it without asking (thats what ms-windows does, and I like it).

4. it would be nice to be able to define names for the mount points created in media like /media/mymusic, /media/mybackup for individual devices.

5. create hal-conditions (most users won't be able to do this by hand in systemsettings) "by example": plug in an external drive and allowing the user to define actions (for example via context menu in device notifier opening same dialog as in system-settings, but with already defined conditions, whch identify the drive. perhaps difficult to define how to identify a drive?)

I had a look in bugs.kde for bugs related to mounting problems and found surprisingly many, I think at least following bugs could be fixed by allowing more control over mounting behaviour:

bug 161673
bug 216985
bug 188310
bug 168914
bug 194891
bug 170636
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 22:58:11 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 05:32:42 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2022-12-12 01:55:59 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-27 05:21:05 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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If you have already provided the requested information, please
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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-11 05:19:01 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!