On Monday, 8. August 2005 16:51, Rich Winkel wrote:
> What is the recommended way to deal with removable media (floppies,
> cdroms, usb flash drives etc) in kde under freebsd?

In general, there is very little integration between KDE and low-level 
operating system functions such as device or filesystem management on 
FreeBSD.

Now (as in the very latest version of the kdebase port) that the media:/ view 
works halfway right in FreeBSD, the easiest way is to make fstab entries for 
the respective devices/mountpoints, making sure they're mountable by the 
users who need them and letting users access them through the media:/ view in 
konqueror (or the dynamic device icons which users can turn on in 
KControl/Desktop/Behaviour/Device Icons). 

Note that media:/ cannot see or handle any sort of device or filesystem that 
has no fstab entry. This also affects the functionality of the dynamic device 
icons - only the 'Mounted' or 'Unmounted' device types will work.

Users can also make static device links on their desktops by right clicking on 
the desktop, then selecting Create New/Link to Device/[Device Type]. 
Depending on the selected device type the .desktop files which get created in 
~/Desktop may need some hand-editing afterwards though.

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