Desktop device icons do not show at all

[Justin Denick]

AFAIK kde still used hal to interface with the actual hardware.
Those tabs in konq just point to the pseudo device created by the afore 
mentioned clients and managers.

On 9/20/05, WoWeePratt <woweepratt at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem. I stumbled upon a post in another group which 
> solved
> my problem. I'm new to Linux, and I'm at a Windows machine, so I'm going 
> off
> memory here, but:
> 
> In Konquerer find something where it says "Devices". Right click on
> "Devices" and fish around until you find a dialogue box where you can 
> rename
> that to "Media". That worked for me.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike" <mikeumo at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [kde] Desktop device icons do not show at all
> 
> 
> Thanks, Justin --
> 
> I have all those services running, except dbus. Is this a new requirement
> for
> KDE? I had icons in kde 3.3 without dbus. I can run devfsd. Would that 
> make
> a
> difference?
> 
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:06, Justin Denick wrote:
> > You must have something running in the background that will monitor for
> > theses devices.
> >
> > As I understand it, dbus will monitor changes in your userspace and tell
> > the kernel when something happens. Like you plugging in your jump-drive 
> or
> > a printer. From there udev will name/type the device according to
> > predefined rules in /etc. I believe from there hotplug will recognize 
> the
> > device (placed appropriately by udev in /dev) as whatever it is and load
> > the appropriate modules. It is at this point the HAL daemon will tell 
> kde
> > to plop a pretty little icon on your desktop.
> >
> > I may be off on a few points here so if anybody has a better, more
> > accurate
> > description, please let us know.
> >
> > On 9/20/05, mikeumo at sbcglobal.net <mikeumo at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > Hello --
> > >
> > > I checked all the icons I like in "Configure desktop > etc.", 
> including
> > > the
> > > unmounted devices. Yet there are no icons on my desktop (after kde
> > > restart).
> > >
> > > Can someone help me?
> > >
> > > mike.
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