Review Request: big revamp of Device Notifier

[Giulio Camuffo]

> On 2009-08-20 18:39:43, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/devicenotifier.cpp, line 338
> > <http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1370/diff/1/?file=10366#file10366line338>
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> >     Urgh! Please no!
> >     
> >     You're hard depending on HAL now. It's doomed to fail if HAL behavior changes a bit, or if distros move away from it in favor of something else.
> >     
> >     We have the solid layer exactly to cope up with those changes. Please use it.
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>  wrote:
>     In fact I looked in the Solid documentation for a class to easily mount the devices, but I didn't find anything.

ok, found it, Solid::StorageAccess::setup(). 
But "setup" isn't very clear as a name, because setup could mean lots of things. I expected "mount"


- Giulio


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On 2009-08-21 12:47:32, Giulio Camuffo wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-08-21 12:47:32)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> This is a patch that modifies quite heavily the behaviour of the Device Notifier.
> It comes from here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Device+Manager?content=106051
> It can show the not removable devices too, it can mount them automatically or with a click, since the "eject" button is a "mount" button when the volume is umounted. So that guy on the dot will be ok.
> It can hide some items in the same way as Dolphin's places (hide item/ show all).
> Finally, it shows the various opening actions under the device instead of calling that xp-ish window.
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/CMakeLists.txt 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/configurationpage.ui PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/devicenotifier.h 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/devicenotifier.cpp 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/devicespaceinfodelegate.h 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/devicespaceinfodelegate.cpp 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/notifierdialog.h 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/notifierdialog.cpp 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/notifierview.h 1013960 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/devicenotifier/notifierview.cpp 1013960 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1370/diff
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> Testing
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> I'm using it every day since I released 0.1 on Kde-look. I tried all the options on my pc and they work. Some people on kde-look posted some comments about some problems, but it seems to me they are very particular cases, so in my opinion it is quite stable to go in trunk, but anyway review it! :)
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> Screenshots
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> screen
>   http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1370/s/183/
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> Thanks,
> 
> Giulio
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