In KDE 3.5.10, with floppy drive polling explicitly disabled with HAL, the Unmounted Floppy icon appears on my desktop. This provides me a means to manually mount floppy disks. Yeah, once in a blue moon I still use floppies (I have some old computers with no USB support).
BTW, disabling polling stops the clicking sound.
With Trinity, the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon no longer appears. I presume this has something to do with polling being disabled.
I can get the Unmounted Floppy icon to appear by inserting a USB flash drive. This seems to refresh the desktop. But this lasts only for that session. Next restart of Trinity and the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon is gone.
Is this different behavior a bug or a "feature"?
Thanks.
Darrell
In KDE 3.5.10, with floppy drive polling explicitly disabled with HAL, the Unmounted Floppy icon appears on my desktop. This provides me a means to manually mount floppy disks. Yeah, once in a blue moon I still use floppies (I have some old computers with no USB support).
BTW, disabling polling stops the clicking sound.
With Trinity, the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon no longer appears. I presume this has something to do with polling being disabled.
I can get the Unmounted Floppy icon to appear by inserting a USB flash drive. This seems to refresh the desktop. But this lasts only for that session. Next restart of Trinity and the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon is gone.
Is this different behavior a bug or a "feature"?
It's a bug. You will also notice it occurring with unmounted CD drives and hard disks.
Tim
Okay. Bug report 385 filed.
In KDE 3.5.10, with floppy drive
polling explicitly disabled with HAL, the
Unmounted Floppy icon appears on my desktop. This
provides me a means to
manually mount floppy disks. Yeah, once in a blue moon
I still use
floppies (I have some old computers with no USB
support).
BTW, disabling polling stops the clicking sound.
With Trinity, the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon no
longer appears. I
presume this has something to do with polling being
disabled.
I can get the Unmounted Floppy icon to appear by
inserting a USB flash
drive. This seems to refresh the desktop. But this
lasts only for that
session. Next restart of Trinity and the Unmounted
Floppy desktop icon is
gone.
Is this different behavior a bug or a "feature"?
It's a bug. You will also notice it occurring with unmounted CD drives and hard disks.
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Darrell Anderson -
Timothy Pearson