Re: Having Konqueror/kDesktop displaying media volume label

Michèl Alexandre Salim <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.look
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 --- Dave Leigh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is fine for a default, but I would
> allow superusers to mount 
> globally. The reason is that I've needed to mount
> disks (particularly CD-ROMs 
> or ZIP disks) that will need to be accessed by a
> workgroup. You need this 
> flexibility, *especially* in a multiuser
> environment.
> 
> > The .kdelnk file is a great idea; it could be
> automatically placed on
> > the desktop. Or better: The icon of the device
> that was mounted should
> > change its name accordingly to "LABEL in CD-ROM"
> or whatever.
> 
> Of course, I think it should remain pointing at the
> standard mount-point. 
> That way you only need to change the name of the
> file, and not any of the 
> content. (So I'm lazy. Sue me.)
> 
This is what Nautilus is doing ATPM. A nice thing
would be to allow for user-generated links to devices
such as now to optionally allow auto-renaming, and if
no such file on the desktop 'owns' a particular
device, the desktop link will be autogenerated and
auto-renamed on the fly, and auto-removed when done,
when the device is removed.

It would require adding a list of devices the user is
allowed to mount (performed by examining fstab) to the
menu of kdesktop.

Regards,

Michel

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