On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 22:00:13 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: [...]
> You may want to take a look at Gnome. In Gnome, removable devices > are handled like this: an icon appears on the desktop when the device > is inserted. When you're done with the device, you click on the icon and > select "safely remove". A window pops up saying "removing device..." or > somesuch, and when it goes away it's safe to remove your device (and the > icon on the desktop is gone). I don't use Gnome much except as an xterm > launcher, so I can't say more than that, but it looks like this aspect is > pretty well-designed. > > I couldn't believe that KDE doesn't do something like this nowadays -- > Gnome has been doing this for at least a couple years IIRC -- so I > downloaded and installed KDE on my desktop to try it out. Apparently > the only way to get an icon for your removable device is to click on the > "services" tab (intuitively represented by ... a flag?), which shows > attached devices under "storage media" and lets you "safely remove" > the device. A little green triangle disappears after the device is > unmounted, which I didn't even notice until I'd mounted/unmounted it > several times. > > So, the functionality is present in both UIs, but KDE has chosen a > rather obtuse way of getting at it, IMO. Just for the record: You can have icons for the removable devices pop up on your KDE desktop if you activate them in Control Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]