The Device Notifier

[Rex Dieter]

rgheck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to write a little desktop file that will allow me just to 
> mount newly inserted devices, rather than to open them with Dolphin. I 
> can see roughly how to do this, but have two questions:
> 
> (i) Is there some local place one can put such files, instead of 
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/? I've tried putting the file in 
> .kde/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/, but that didn't work, and I also 
> tried .kde/share/apps/solid/actions/.

I would've expected
.kde/share/apps/solid/actions/
to work like the system-provided
/usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/

> (ii) How on earth would one go about just mounting the device? Is there 
> some call to hal or whatever that can be made?

I think so, gnome-mount (don't let the name fool you) is one way.

-- Rex