deano ferrari wrote:
> @DenverD: The OP is specifically referring to his SD Card sevice, not
> regular usb storage media.
i just plugged an SD Card into my system and (as previously mentioned)
it auto-mounted as /media/sdb1 and a pop-up offered to “Open in New
Window”, “Download Photos with digiKam” or “Do Nothing”…
when i’m done doing what i wanna do i remove the SD Card…
no right clicking needed to either mount or unmount being required…
are you saying that your KDE4 is less capable than my KDE3?
still, after all these months??? really?
jdd wrote:
> and how do you know an application is not acessing your device?
all USB mountable devices i’ve seen have a built in LED which blinks
when in use…
and, most (all?) applications capable of moving data into or out of
them have progress indicators which will announce when they are
finished…and, apparently then some go on to tell the user that since
they are finished it is safe to remove the device (which i deem
redundant)…
Le 01/05/2010 12:15, DenverD a écrit :
> jdd wrote:
>> and how do you know an application is not acessing your device?
>
> all USB mountable devices i’ve seen have a built in LED which blinks
> when in use…
among others
>
> and, most (all?) applications capable of moving data into or out of
> them have progress indicators which will announce when they are
> finished…and, apparently then some go on to tell the user that since
> they are finished it is safe to remove the device (which i deem
> redundant)…
>
finished for the application don’t mean finished for the system.
you can verify this as sometime umount don’t work, because umount
knows if any application locks the drive. Of course unplugging don’t
works, there is no unplug lock.
on kde4, one can begin a large copy with dolphin, then stop dolphin,
the copy is still going on. I have a task notifyer on my task bar
(“i”), but not that visible and easy to forget.
Notice, I had to copy tera bytes big drives recently, so I was
specially concerned :-)) - two days work
are you saying that your KDE4 is less capable than my KDE3?
still, after all these months??? really?
No, not really. I understand that recent versions of KDE4 (KDE 4.5) have a device notifier that can be configured to alter mounting behaviour (including auto-mounting) if desired. Earlier versions (such as KDE4.3) relied on manual user-mounting via the notifier widget, or the ‘Places’ panel within Dolphin.
I’m not familiar with recent incarnations of Gnome, and AFAIU openSUSE 11.2 ships with Gnome2.28. Histroically, gnome-volume-manager handled automounting, but this functionality is now provided by Nautilus as explained here:
okay, I found out about gvfs-mount so I can now manually mount and unmount as user! but indeed Nautilus should be able to take care of mounting automatically
okay, I found out about gvfs-mount so I can now manually mount and unmount as user! but indeed Nautilus should be able to take care of mounting automatically
I agree. What we need now is some Gnome users to share their experiences with ‘automounting’ of SD card media. If others have the same problem, then maybe a bug report is in order.