Autofs and kde ... solution and problem

[wim delvaux]

After scanning the lists I noticed that many have tried and failed to use the 
autofs together with kde.

I Have done this with some degree of success.

What I did is fool kde a bit.  

Suppose you mount the disk or whatever on /mnt/SomeDisk using the autofs map.

Instead of cd-ing to that director I have created a link to that 'sometimes 
not existing' directory

So I have something like
	/mnt/LinkToDisk -> /mnt/SomeDisk

Accessing /mnt/LinkTo/Disk with e.g an 'ls' (ls /mnt/LinkToDisk/*) would 
automount the /mnt/SomeDisk and work just fine.

In kde I then add a desktop link to /mnt/LinkToDisk .. kde thinks this is a 
link and will monitor just the link. Hence it will not mount the partition.  
That willy only occur when you click on the 'link' icon

TO make it absolutely perfect though I would like the icon to reflect the 
mounted state of the disk.  (Especially useful for CDrom etc.)

Two ways present itself.  Using the automonitoring (but I do not find any info 
on that) or using the automounter (autofs) to execute an extra command when 
the disk is mounted.  The problem is : Wnat command.

Now I have noticed that dcop can send commands to the kde desktop.  Could dcop 
be used to 'update' the state of an icon on the desktop ? If so what message 
to send ?

If not, what other suggestions might work >?

W

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