On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 15:26:04 Harald Sitter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Philip Muskovac <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > To start plasma-netbook on 'Netbooks' we added a check to startkde that > > checks whether laptop-detect return true, whether the display height is > > between 0 and 700px, whether an optical drive exists or whether netbook > > was explicitely requested [1]. > > As the optical drive check depends on udisks, it's broken on new installs > > since we switched to udisks2. > > > > Why are we checking for an optical drive again? As I understand it, the > > plasma-netbook interface was mostly about efficient screen space usage. > > > > If someone remembers why checking for an optical drive is useful here I'll > > try to fix this, otherwise I'll just remove the udisks code from > > startkde. > virtual machines I think. > > though, IIRC there was also a general concern with pulling up the > netbook UI on not netbook machines and netbook machines do not ever > have a drive, hence that check.
That's my recollection as well (to reduce false positives on small screen notebooks). Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
