Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/21/06 17:26 CST: > If you want gnome-mount, then we either need to include pam_console or > make some fixes to hal.
Thanks Dan. I snipped everything, but my message really doesn't have a whole lot to do with your excellent summary. I'm going to summarize what I know about KDE so far using new HAL/DBUS as it pertains to mounting removable media. I don't think KDE is an issue at all, really. KDE properly identifies the plug-in media (USB) by volume label and/or hardware specs. So if you're at the console (KDE non-remote, or more technically correct, non-XDMCP access), and you have the 'media storage' applet in your panel, you just need to hover your mouse over the removable storage icon that appeared when you plugged in the media and it will tell you what the device is. As far as automatic-mount, KDE can be configured so that it does it on its own, providing there is an available entry in the fstab file for the device. How it works is when KDE recognizes media has been pluged in, a dialog comes up asking you if you want to open the media in a new window (which mounts the device) or do nothing. If you say you want the media displayed in a new window, and then click the "do this every time" (or something similar) box, it will appear to be auto-mounting. I can see why some don't want automount though. If you have KDE mount the media, it does it as the user logged into the console and is running the KDE session. So, any other user cannot write to the device (assuming you have the 'users' option in the fstab line). This might suck. So not having it automount means that any user can mount the drive. This may be desirable in a situation where there is a user at the console and other users logged in remotely. Bottom line is I'm prepared to say that KDE is "just fine" with the existing methods of mounting removable media with the new HAL/DBUS. Though it requires a system admin to initially populate the fstab file for any device that may be expected to be present (plugged-in). Does this sound cool to everyone? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 17:31:00 up 9 days, 9:31, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.26 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
