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Bug 385

Summary:	Unmounted removable device icons do not appear on the desktop
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	bugwatch, darrella
Priority:	P1
Version:	3.5.13 [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Darrell 2010-12-12 13:36:04 CST

In KDE 3.5.10, the Unmounted Floppy icon appears on my desktop. This provides a a means to manually mount floppy disks without using HAL polling (disabling polling stops the clicking sound).

With Trinity 3.5.12, the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon no longer appears.

This also is the case for unmounted CDs and hard drive partitions.

I can get the Unmounted Floppy icon to appear by inserting a USB flash drive. This seems to refresh the desktop. This lasts only for that session. Next restart of Trinity and the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon is gone.

Comment 1 Darrell 2011-12-09 21:40:47 CST

Bug still exists in 3.5.13. Seems related to bugs 372 and 634.

Comment 2 Darrell 2011-12-20 15:29:56 CST

Basically, device icons do not appear on the desktop until there is a device change event. Then the device icons finally appear.

Oddly, the device icon placement is hard-coded to the second horizontal grid row, which is quite frustrating. That is, even after manually placing a device icon to the desired location, the next device change event moves all the device icons to the second horizontal grid row. Refer to bug report 392.

Comment 3 Darrell 2011-12-21 00:21:20 CST

When the desktop first loads after login, is there a way to simulate a device change event? That would force device icons to appear in the user's desktop.

Comment 4 Darrell 2012-01-27 18:54:07 CST

Update: Possibly this bug is resolved when we added hal and gamin support to the tdelibs build options. I now see USB device icons when inserted, which includes a digital camera.

I do not see CD/DVD device icons and never see the popup asking how to handle the disk (bug report 634).

The device icon placements still defaults to the second horizontal grid row, which is frustrating (bug report 392). Icons should appear where I save them on the desktop.

Comment 5 Darrell 2012-02-04 11:35:49 CST

Update: I now receive the popup when inserting an optical disk.

My unmounted floppy device icon appears too.

However, when I unmount a floppy, actually unmount any device, the icon automatically moves to the second horizontal row (bug report 392).

Comment 6 Darrell 2012-02-27 06:30:20 CST

Update: my floppy icon does not appear when the session starts. I again have to trigger a device event, such as mount a partiton through kwikdisk or insert a USB flash drive or optical disk. GIT short version 4395.

Comment 7 Darrell 2012-03-22 22:55:54 CDT

This is just plain broken.

When starting the session, no device icons of any type appear on the desktop at all until there is a device change event.

Only the special icons (My Computer, My Documents, etc.) appear when the session starts.

Comment 8 Darrell 2012-03-28 11:39:13 CDT

The patch submitted in GIT hash 43bb5b9 that resolved bug report 372 has also resolved this bug report (Slackware 13.1). I tested several device icons and now all appear when starting the session.

Thanks you!