media:/ browsing and settings

[Boyan Tabakov]

On 19.10.2006 17:39, Michał Bendowski wrote:
> Generally speaking, you're right, but  there are some exceptions. First -
> the pmount command, which can mount removable devices as a normal user
> (don't ask how, it just does it). Second - HAL, Hardware Abstraction Layer,
> which detects atached USB disks or inserted CDs and runs pmount-hal.
> However, you have to configure pmount ("pmount policy") and HAL so that it
> mounts everything in /media or wherever you want. HAL uses dbus message bus
> to communicate with KDE media manager. So when an USB drive is attached,
> dbus message is sent to KDE, it asks you what to do, and depending on your
> answer mounts it or not.
>
> About configuration and possible problems - first, you have to be in the
> "plugdev" group, to which (by default) all the files and devices belong. On
> my gentoo box I didn't do any configuration tweaks to pmount, hal or dbus,
> KDE automatically starts cooperating with them.
>
> Benol
>
> PS. pumount can unmount devices.

Thanks. I guess the "don't touch it, if it works" rule should be reminded to 
me:)

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