[kde-linux] Desktop widget like Windows Vista sidebar/clock thing?

[Dr. Edgar Alwers]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 23:25:34 Anne Wilson wrote:

> > On this list you wrote that on folderview "most things function just as
> >  they did in KDE 3". Well yes, if you use folderview as your desktop you
> >  can again right-click, add a link to a device and configure it as you
> >  would in KDE 3... except it does not work! When you want to mount the
> >  device you are told that "only Root can do this", despite the fact that
> >  you device(s) is correctly added to fstab. So all you can do is open a
> >  console and mount (which here works perfectly as a normal user).
>
> Sorry - you lost me.  The device is in fstab, but you are manually mounting
> it?  I certainly can recall seeing exactly that message if you tried to
> mount such a drive as user under kde3 - that's what taught me to mount as
> root, from the command line.

Wrong, Anne. If you have a device included in fstab with the option "user", 
you can mount this device in KDE-3 as user ( not root ) through the device-
icon on the desktop. Please read "man fstab" Quote: "user, allow a user to 
mount". However, this does not work in KDE-4 ! It is a bug, as I was told just 
monday by Arn on my complain on exactly the same issue Thierry mentioned:

"Known bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179320"

So you _have_ to mount the device in a console, where certainly you do not 
need to be root.

I am pretty new to KDE-4.3.0, but I start understanding the comments " it is a 
good beta version". There are plenty of little nasty issues, the list of bugs 
is long.

> As long as you refuse to make a simple statement of what you want to
> achieve and accept help you are not in any position to make a judgement. 
> Thousands of people have managed to get the desktop they want.  Why don't
> you try asking how to achieve what you want?
>
Sorry, Anne, this is simple polemics. I think, all contributions here have one 
goal, to improve the system. The discussions shoud remain in the objective 
level needed to achieve that.

Edgar

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Dr. Edgar Alwers
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