Review Request: Device notifier: show mounted device and path

[Aaron J. Seigo]

> On Oct. 7, 2012, 3:32 p.m., Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > I do not want the notifier to show this information in the device view; indeed, for devices with a label, the mount point is /media/<label>, so the information about the mount point would look like quite redundant.
> > Perhaps you could show it in a tooltip, instead; that would be acceptable imho
> > 
> > In any case, the “trouble with unmounting” usecase should be resolved in some other way (e.g. by making use of lsof in solid to identify blocking apps), so I am not super-sure that the user should be given such specific information as /dev/xxxx. 
> >

agreed. this is debugging info and as such would be visual noise 99%+ of the time. worse yet, this is jargon, the kind of thing we don't want to shove in the average user's face.

as an alternative, this information could go into a Properties dialog that is accessible from the Devices section of Places (e.g. what Dolphin uses in its sidebar)


- Aaron J.


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On Oct. 7, 2012, 2:55 p.m., Jonathan Marten wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 7, 2012, 2:55 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Base Apps and Plasma.
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> Description
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> If a removable device is mounted using the Plasma device notifier, there is no indication of what the Unix name of the device is or where it is mounted.  This information may be useful to the user for (a) accessing the mounted device from non-KDE applications, or (b) troubleshooting mounting or unmounting problems.
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> The attached patch shows this information when the device is hovered over, just above the "N actions for this device" text.  Depending on whether or not the device is mounted, there are three possibilities that can be shown here:
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>   /dev/XXX                           when not mounted
>   /dev/XXX mounted on /media/YYYY    when mounted
>   /dev/XXX mounted                   if mounted but the mount point is not available
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> Please be gentle, this is my first QML patch :-)
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> This addresses bug 196939.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196939
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml 2a9b3f7 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106755/diff/
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> Testing
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> Built kde-workspace with this change, observed operation and display of device notifier with a selection of removable devices.
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> Screenshots
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> Device notifier with mounted device
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106755/s/756/
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> Thanks,
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> Jonathan Marten
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