[dolphin] [Bug 495789] New: Make mount points user-settable

[Uwe Dippel]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495789

            Bug ID: 495789
           Summary: Make mount points user-settable
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 24.08.2
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: udippel at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
As of now, the mount points of removable drives are hard-coded (compile-time
adjustment). My use case is, that the user can decide in Settings where those
exchangeable drives are mounted under '/'.

OBSERVED RESULT
In Debian et al, Ubuntu, the removable drives are mounted under /media/user
In Fedora the pre-defined mount point is /run/media/user

EXPECTED RESULT
Coming from Ubuntu to Fedora, I cannot continue my generic practice. I'd expect
to have settings under Settings, where I am free to select the mount point
without re-compiling the software

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.,22
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7
Qt Version: 6.8

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
My use case is the following: I receive a large number of different USB drives.
Usual practice is mounting with Dolphin, and run updatedb. Within a second or
two, I can 'locate' any substring file (name), because I altered updatedb.conf,
with /media/user un-pruned in Ubuntu.
Now I have to move to Fedora. The compile-time-induced mount point is
/run/media/user. It makes little sense, however, to not prune /run in the
configuration. 
Before anyone starts discussing 'security' and readable and writable mounts, I
for one still believe in the (by now former?) philosophy of FOSS, that the user
is in control of his system; not necessarily by having to compile himself
whatever modifications he desires. 
There are also use cases thinkable, where e.g. the mount points could be under
/home/user. 

The only current workaround is setting each and every drive in /etc/fstab to a
different mount point. When students bring in their drives, I think it would be
silly having to add each drive to /etc/fstab to be in a state of mounting it
wherever I want. Or having to forcibly mount each one with the terminal command
sudo mount ... .

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