Mountable devices support in KDE

[Rafał Miłecki]

2009/9/14 David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
> On Monday 14 September 2009, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2009/9/8 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
>> >> Is such a url trick acceptable to be commited to KDE (libkonq)?
>> >
>> > I've no say in that. More something to discuss with David.
>>
>> Can sb else comment on this, please? David doesn't seem to read this ML.
>
> Hey, how would I have posted 5889 emails to kde-core-devel since 1999 if I
> wasn't subscribed to it? :-)
> (statistics from kde.markmail.org)

Huh, you definitely are :)


> IIRC Solid has a way to find the device from the device name like /dev/sdb1,
> so instead of a kioslave-specific hack, how about using /dev/sdb1 as the path
> for which to show the popupmenu? "All" we need to do is to show mount/unmount
> for such paths, and that seems easy to do: just modify
> KDesktopFileActions::builtinServices (in kio) so that it calls
> KMountPoint::currentMountPoints().findByDevice(_url.path()) when _url is a
> device path rather than a .desktop file. Something like the attached patch
> (untested).

Thanks, I'll test this together with your patch.


> Ah, but we can only recognize /dev/sdb1 if it's already mounted; otherwise
> (if it's not mounted and it's not in fstab), how can we find out it's a
> mountable device? Via Solid maybe? Kevin? ;)

That should be easy. I believe we can just steal code from
DeviceNotifier, can't we?

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Rafał