Custom responses to HAL events

Cathal O'Brien cathalobrien at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 21:21:09 GMT 2006


On 12/11/06, Paul Worrall <lists at basilisk.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> When I plug in a USB memory stick, or insert a CD, the appropriate icon
> automatically appears on my desktop.  It would be nice if a similar thing
> happened when I plug in my PDA, but PDAs are not on the standard list of
> device types to display (under Configure Desktop -> Behaviour -> Device
> Icons).  I can probably identify the hal event corresponding to
> plugging-in
> the PDA but I can't see a way to make KDE respond to custom events like
> this.
> The icon would allow me to browse the PDA using the fish protocol (I have
> a .desktop file I prepared earlier that does this)
>
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> Paul
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Dont have KDE in front of me, but cant you create an icon on the desktop,
assign it certain options, so that that icon will be used when you plug in a
PDA. Dont have a PDA but im sure you can do that.

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Cathal O'Brien
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