First off, you were 100% correct if I am using MDK 9.0. I disabled automount as root, logged in as 'user', brought up KDE, loaded a CD, clicked on the CD icon on my Desktop, brought up Konqueror and then I picked the appropriate CD and there it was! I found that I could even eject the CD while Konqueror was still showing the contents of the CD. I placed a new CD in, did a refresh in Kongueror, and it showed me the revised contents of the new CD. I like this! Supermount is history!
On MDK 8.2, it is not quite so easy, but still enough so that I can see your point. When I disabled supermount there, I found that I was denied access to the drive until I opened a terminal and mounted the drive. From there, I could then access it through the icon as user, or through a terminal, as you would expect. I could even switch CDs on the fly, with one exception. If I have Kongueror browsing the contents of the CD I wish to replace, I must click on another folder outside of /mnt/cdrom folder or the drive is locked, just as it would be with any other program accessing the CD-ROM drive. However, in a terminal, I can change CDs and do as I wish without locking the drive.
The same was true for my external zip drive. I had to mount it once, but then could eject and insert as many zip disks as I liked without a concern. Interesting enough, Konqueror does not have any hold on the zip drive while browsing it (in MDK 8.2.) As long as it is not scanning or working with the drive, I can eject and refresh the window instead of changing the focus elsewhere to unlock the drive, as with a CD-ROM.
So, the big change in MDK 9.0 over MDK 8.2 (regarding the mounting of removable media drives) is that mounting is automatic anyway, so there's no need for supermount!
Did I finally get this right? :-)
T
Nope, it will do it in one quick 'n easy operation. Kinda negates the need for supermount, with all its problems, don't it? ;-)<snip>Ugh. Its why I disabled supermount. Now I can just click on my Zip icon on my KDE desktop, and boom! up blows a window with the contents... <snip>
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