In the planet posts i’ll mostly blog about the little things i do for Plasma, hopefully with screenshots when possible 🙂
At the moment i’m playing around the device notifier to make it more appealing and most important more intuitive. One problem was that there was not an intuitive way to unmount removable discs/eject cds, the dolphin rmb menu is well, a right mouse button menu and the drag and drop to trash is funny but i admit it a little bit silly :D.
Now there is a little eject icon in the device notifier near to all the mounted devices, clicking on that it does the proper action whether is unmount or eject. now the look is this:
In the future multiple icons so multiple actions will be supported and will devicenotifier will support different kind of devices it will be possible to offer an intuitive way to perform common operations, like turn off a webcam, interrupt a bluetooth pairing or well, whatever 🙂
Now the appeal part… at the moment the look sucks a little bit, also because it’s totally different from how kickoff looks, but now we’re working on a way to give all the similar plasma applets (at the moment kickoff and devicenotifier, in the future who knows) a cool unified kick-ass look, stay tuned 🙂
This is agreat new, my brothers and their girlfrisnds will love that, really. Thankx, hugs. bye
I would like to see button next on Removable icon in Dolphin sidebar what would allow unmounting. Problem would be that when selectin external drive, user could click “remove” button so fix for that would be that button would act like konqueror hidden feature on tab button when user moves cursor top of button, it takes 1s to allow closing tab.
Something similar could allow using here.
I would make those umount icons bigger or keep icon what it is and make area/button bigger so it would be easier to umount drives.
I would like to see button next on Removable icon in Dolphin sidebar what would allow unmounting. Problem would be that when selectin external drive, user could click “remove” button so fix for that would be that button would act like konqueror hidden feature on tab button when user moves cursor top of button, it takes 1s to allow closing tab.
Something similar could allow using here.
I would make those umount icons bigger or keep icon what it is and make area/button bigger so it would be easier to umount drives.
I can not seem to get this to recognize my devices… What is the subsystem behind this? Is it DBUS? HALD? UDEV? How should I set appropriate permissions to do this?