Odd behaviour of Dolphin with pendrives

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 18:31 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
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> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 07:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > 1) No auto pop-up. This is probably a setting somewhere 
> and hence my
> >> > fault. For now I just click on the drive icon in the 
> Kickoff menu,
> >> > though a nudge in the right direction would be 
> appreciated.
> >> >
> >> If you use the device notifier on the panel to mount it, you 
> get a popup
> >> showing your options, such as to open in dolphin, download 
> pictures, etc.
> > 
> > True. Unfortunately the exact same menu pops up when you want 
> to unmount
> > it. This makes no sense. Furthermore, after mounting there is 
> no change
> > whatever to the apparent state seen in the notifier. It 
> doesn't say
> > where the device is mounted, or even that is mounted at all, 
> i.e. there
> > is no way to distingsuih (using this window) if the device is 
> mounted or
> > not.
> 
> I don't see this behavior. I click on a media entry and I get 
> asked what to do. I click on the "eject" icon to unmount it and 
> no window pops up.

This is true when you click on the entry under Kickoff->Computer, or on
the icon under the Places menu. When you click on the Notifier entry you
do get a popup (at least I do).

(Also, the Notifier text is misleading. It refers to "Devices recently
plugged in", but I also see my external USB hard drive which is never
unplugged and has been there since boot time. It should really say
"Removable devices")

> There is a tiny icon drawn on the entry as 
> to whether the media is mounted or not. See the attached 
> screenshot for the difference.

I would argue that it's not very visible, but that's a matter of taste.

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