[kde-doc-english] Re: KDE Help Centre - Device Actions.

Ben Cooksley sourtooth at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 20:12:24 CET 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:
> Hi Ritchie,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 30. September 2010, um 16:24:21 schrieb ritchie:
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> You firstly, I must say, you guys do a great job. Keep up the good work :-)
>>
> Thanks for you kind words...
>
>> I have a suggestion to improve the Device Actions help page in the KDE Help
>> Centre.
>>
>> In the section "Edit Requirement > Item Type > Restriction Type" you state
>>
> Seems you refer to an old version from 4.3 of this documentation, the latest
> help you find here:
> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-workspace/kcontrol/solid-
> actions/index.html
>
>> "Compare Value To compares a value of the device with what you specify."
>>
>> Could you provide an example or two please. For example When I plug in my
>> external USB HDD I would like the Option to run grsync, but I do not want
>> the same option when I plug in a USB thumb drive (both are
>> StorageVolumes). I would like to restrict the action to Device Serial
>> Number / or name. I see there is a "StorageVolume.Label" But have no idea
>> what the label value is for my device.
>>
>> Also how many Compare Value, Is Value, Equals statements can you have in a
>> container. My control panel > Device Notifier always complains when I try
>> to add a third <shrug>

This is a very old version unfortunately, only 0 or 2 items will work.
You can use the parent items to expand this.
Later versions help you more here.

The Label should be the label of the partition ( and is shown by
Device Notifier if it is set )

>>
> CC'ing the Device Actions Maintainer, Ben would you mind to step in?
>
> --
> Burkhard Lück
>

Regards,
Ben



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