Type=FSDevice desktop files

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Hi,

 > Would it be OK if we dropped support for desktop files that represent 
devices?
 > This was a KDE1/KDE2/KDE3? feature, you'd write/ship a desktop file 
with Type=FSDevice and Dev=/dev/sdc and this would give you Mount and 
Unmount in the context menu.

I believe macOS to this day automatically adds storage devices to the 
desktop so I could imagine a use case here.

However, with auto-discovery, device notifier, UDisks, etc, I think it's 
quite a niche, and I'd happily see this feature gone :)

Cheers
Kai Uwe

Am 26.04.20 um 23:45 schrieb David Faure:

> 
> This was useful back then, for USB keys and CDROMs (kids, ask your parents
> what that was), before Solid, before the plasma device notification popup...
> 
> But has anyone been using this in the last 10 years? I kind of doubt it.
> 
> Since I'm refactoring KRun and KDesktopFileActions to be asynchronous and
> independent from QtWidgets, I need to know what to do with this IMHO very dead
> code. Of course these classes will keep providing the feature, but once I
> write a KIO::OpenUrlJob as a replacement for KRun and we port the code to
> that, we'll lose the feature from a user's point of view.
> Not sure this is really a loss though ;)
>