Plasma Media Center and external USB drives

Vishesh Handa me at vhanda.in
Fri Oct 24 13:15:03 UTC 2014


On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu at kde.org>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> While we are busy implementing the new PMC design[1], we revisited the
> question on what happens to USB devices. Finally we think we will offer the
> following options to the user when a USB device is detected-
>
> 1. Mount the USB device and ask Baloo to index it so that the media show
> up in the usual PMC (Video/Songs/Pictures) screens. (This option might not
> be preferred if the user, for some reason, doesn't want the drive to be
> indexed and be available to other apps as well)
> 2. Mount the USB device and let the user browse through files and play
> them manually.
>

3. Create your own local index of files in the USB stick.


-- 
Vishesh Handa
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