Custom responses to HAL events

[Cathal O'Brien]

On 14/11/06, Paul Worrall <lists at basilisk.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:21, Cathal O'Brien wrote:
> > 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)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul
> >
> > 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.
>
> I've got an icon that does what I want, what I would like is for that icon
> to
> be hidden when the PDA is not plugged in and then automatically appear on
> the
> desktop when I plug in the PDA.  It's not essential - just wondering if
> there
> was a way to do it :-)
>
> --
> Paul
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Nah i cant say its not possible but i was doing something like that with an
external device before and the icon was always their. Dont know of a way to
hide the icon once unplugged. Does anyone else know whether this is
possible?


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Cathal O'Brien
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