It's true, I support unwilling converst from windows who use Kmail instead of Netscape mailer because they can click on the link to an attachment in Kmail (say a MS Word *.doc file) and Star Office will rise to open it. Well, in my quest to make things simpler, I used Air and supermount on a couple of systems. I have had a continuing complaint about "too many steps" to save a transmission on floppy. *"Why can't we use 'send'?"* "Because the people you are preparing floppies for could have many different spreadsheet programs. Use 'save as' and select something all spreadsheets can read." *"But where is the floppy?"* Well, I tried something, using supermounted floppies.. ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/brainwasheduser/Desktop ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/brainwasheduser/Office51/work Then I changed the properties (with a floppy inserted) of the desktop link folder produced to use the icon '3floppy_supermount' and changed the name of the floppy supermount kdelnk to a name beginning with a dot. It seemed fine til I took the floppy out. People could drag files to their floppy, save to it from StarOffice (using the other link), and so on. But when the floppy came out the icon changed on the kfm window viewing the desktop to a locked folder, but not on the desktop (how should I try to sync this?). Moving the cursor over the floppy supermount icon link icon I had made gave me a watch symbol cursor. Clicking on it produced a very sluggish response .... about a minute to bring up a file window, then another minute to say it could not open it. I would like to make that icon generally available to users because it adds the 'essential' function of storing to a mounted floppy when you drag a file to it. Essential to my users, that is. But I cannot while I have this "drop back ten yards and huddle" response from kfm and/or supermount. Watching top in an xterm while this was happeniung was unrevealing. Any suggestions? Anywhere I should look to see if I can improve the performance? I am willing to do some coding if it doesn't get to be a major project. Civileme
