Odd behaviour of Dolphin with pendrives

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 18:04:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 15:07:15 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 23:16 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > > > I don't use kickoff and the notifier didn't pop up a window.
> > > > Configuration difference?
> > >
> > > Or a bug. This definitely happens here. I'll try and get round to
> > > trying it with a fresh user to see if it's the same.
> >
> > What exactly is this popup that you see?
>
> I was trying to use the Device Notifier to unmount the drive. However
> this doesn't appear to be possible. All I get on clicking (left or right
> button, it makes no difference) is the same popup I get when I want to
> mount the drive. 

<sigh> I've described this so many times.  When you see the notifier window, 
hover over the device name and you will see, on the right, an up-arrow inside 
a circle.  Click on that and the drive unmounts.

> IOW it's not a "mount the drive" popup, it's a "what do
> you want to open this with" popup. There doesn't appear to be a way to
> unmount directly from the Notifier, though there is from the Kickoff
> menu and from the Dolphin window. It's not a big deal, but I like
> consistency.
>
Sorry, but you are wrong.  I umount from the device notifier almost every 
time.

> BTW it's rather annoying that the first option in the popup is "Download
> photos with Digikam", which is the one I'm almost never going to want,
> meaning I can't just hit Return but have to physically select "Open with
> Dolphin".
>
File a bugzilla wish.

Anne
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