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Hi there,

currently I'm about reinstalling KDE on a current system, my previous didn't support automoutn (dbus and co).

I'm used and want to continue having icons for floppy, harddisks and DVD drive always on my desktop and mount/unmount them when needed.
So automount is only needed for USB sticks and CF cards.

Now if I insert a CD/DVD it's auto mounted and an additional icon for that cdrom0 is added to the desktop. The same if I mount an already connected harddisk on the command line.
It would be nice to have only one icon for each device always on the desktop which represents the drives current mount status (green edge or not).

How do I achive that?

Regards,
Robert

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Originally posted by Rinse
Right click on your desktop, select [create new -> link to device], select the device type and fill in the tabs of the dialog that opened

Yes, that's what I've done.

• Devices linked by UUID (the same way like in fstab) are mountable via "mount" in right click menu or double clicking, but don't reflect that new state by a green edge and even right click menu still shows "mount" instead of "unmount".
  
• Device icons linked by device name (e.g. /dev/hda7) are easy to mount and use. But unmounting fails with "umount: /mnt/windows/F mount disagrees with the fstab".
  Remeber the device is referenced by UUID in fstab. Changing it into device name there makes the device icon on the desktop work for mount and unmount via desktop. But isn't that a bug?
  

But in any case it doesn't react on (un-)mounting via command line, so it's quite easy to muddle things up.


Also mounting a device (manually by command line or graphical as well as automount, e.g. CD) automatically adds another device icon to the desktop. That's quite convenient for CF cards and external pluggable USB-Drives, but not for partitions on my internal HD, may it the linux root directory or by need mounted Windows partitions.

Currently the device icons on my desktop are as on the attached screenshot. Only "Windows F" is created by myself, everything else has been added automatically and can't be removed since it's owned by root and I don't know where the informations are taken from.
Desktop Behavior/Device Icons/show Device Icons is off but has been on in the past - I guess KDE has been confused by that a bit.

That's chaos.

BTW: That chaos isn't reduced by KDE gives the fstab entries strange names (Konqueror Services sidebar, Storage Media) like "14G-Medium", "509M-Medium" or "DATENTR_GER" (there are five of the last one). That's less than descriptive and very confusing.

Robert