Juan Ignacio Saitua posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:40:28 +0000 as excerpted:
> On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:24 AM, Duncan wrote: >> Removing udisks is likely to do it. > I tried and it works. Now the notifier does nothing when a usb storage > is connected. But now I can't mount the device from within kde. I can > make it by using the command line, but not every user has the knowledge > to do that. How are you dealing with that? > > I already have a udev rule that notifies only the corresponding user > desktop that an usb device is connected, but now I would like to trigger > an "usb insertion device" event in the kde device notifier as well. Do > you know if there is some dbus interface that can be use to achieve > that? OK, this whole post makes me feel a bit like I'm the grouchy old geezer waving his cane at the kids to get off his grass, while complaining about kids these days and how much better things were in the old days, but anyway... First thing, please don't post in HTML to mailing lists. (FWIW, your post appeared in two parts, one HTML, the other plain text.) It's considered by many knowledgeable list regulars to be a security- vulnerable message format, and is vulnerable to web-beacon privacy invasion techniques even when functioning as designed. If a message is worth reading, it's worth reading in plain text, and dressing it up in HTML only makes you look like a spammer, malware spreader, or simply someone with a bad understanding of security concepts. Some choose not to respond to HTML posters or even to killfile them, but I do at least try to ask nicely first and explain, as I've found a significant number of people actually agree and are embarrassed to find they were posting in HTML in the first place. (Kinda like being thankful when someone tells you your zipper is down. =:^) To the topic at hand... I actually prefer the manual way, entering the mount command in konsole or the like. That way I know it's not mounted until I mount it, and when it's mounted, I know the options its mounted with and that they include nodev,noexec,user(s), etc, if appropriate, and that they don't, if not. What I'd do here if necessary for less technically literate users (or those without the perms ordinarily necessary to do the mount) would be to setup a script with exactly the options I wanted, put an icon for it on the desktop or in the menu, and tell them to click it to access their device if they want to. I might even get fancy and use kdialog or the like to script a popup dialog telling them they can now use it, and that they can close the dialog window when they are done using it, as that will automatically kill anything still using it and unmount the device. The script would have the appropriate sudo mount command if necessary, and that specific mount command would be allowed for them in /etc/sudoers, so no dbus or polkit necessary. But I'm sure there's a dbus/polkit interface for it too, were I to look for it, as that's surely what the udisks scripts and plasma device notifier were using. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
