Mountable devices support in KDE

[Rafał Miłecki]

2009/9/8 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>:
> On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2009/9/8 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
>> > On Tuesday 8 September 2009 11:03:37 Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> >> 2009/9/8 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
>> >> > On Tuesday 8 September 2009 00:38:28 Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> >> >> 2) Link to something like "media:/sdb1" and change KDE's libs to
>> >> >> offer (un)mount also for that. Or maybe insted "media:/" we could
>> >> >> just use "/dev/sdb1/"?
>> >> >
>> >> > For the record: kio media doesn't exist anymore since KDE 4.0.
>> >>
>> >> I know, I've meant creating something like that. Or maybe just
>> >> detecting KUrl starting from media:/ in konq's popupMen? Without real
>> >> implementing that protocol?
>> >
>> > There's likely a solid device behind those mount points. So if you want
>> > to do some url tricks, you could craft a URL scheme passing the solid
>> > device identifier. Then the popup menu would decode it and use solid to
>> > do the mounting or unmounting.
>>
>> What scheme do you suggest? Do you think
>> solid:/id
>> will be fine?
>
> Hmm, not sure.
> Just a comment: one thing I didn't like in KDE3 about the media (or system ?)
> ioslave was that while you were able to mount devices and navigate them with
> KDE programs, it wasn't obvious what their real path in the file system was,
> so at least I never knew where they were mounted (and then did a "mount" in a
> terminal to actually see it).
>
> If what you want to do leads to a similar situation this would not be ideal
> IMO.

No, absolutely not. I didn't like that "mysterious" navigating via
media:/. I just need to use some pseudo-protocol to let libkonq know I
want it to display popup menu with (un)mount operations. I'm
absolutely not going to implement media protocol for browsing
anything.

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Rafał Miłecki