On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:45 PM David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote: > > Would it be OK if we dropped support for desktop files that represent devices? > This was a KDE1/KDE2/KDE3? feature, you'd write/ship a desktop file with > Type=FSDevice and Dev=/dev/sdc > and this would give you Mount and Unmount in the context menu. > > This was useful back then, for USB keys and CDROMs (kids, ask your parents > what that was), before Solid, before the plasma device notification popup... > > But has anyone been using this in the last 10 years? I kind of doubt it. > > Since I'm refactoring KRun and KDesktopFileActions to be asynchronous and > independent from QtWidgets, I need to know what to do with this IMHO very dead > code. Of course these classes will keep providing the feature, but once I > write a KIO::OpenUrlJob as a replacement for KRun and we port the code to > that, we'll lose the feature from a user's point of view. > Not sure this is really a loss though ;)
I don't think anyone I've ever discussed OSs would miss it. CCing plasma-devel since people there might know more about different use cases. Aleix