https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427891
--- Comment #4 from Claudius Ellsel <claudius.ell...@live.de> --- (In reply to David Edmundson from comment #3) > > I don't know what the reason is for not doing this > > argument against: > User A logs in and doesn't touch a USB stick > Switch user or logout > User B logs in, tries to safely remove some drive. Would this fail? Interesting question. > argument against: > User plugins in USB stick > Opens isowriter/etcher > It fails Ah, took some time for me to get this one. Your argument is that they require a drive to not be mounted. I think that at least etcher has a way to circumvent those problems (did not find something useful on a short search, but I think it automatically unmounts the drive), but not sure about that. > >I use external hard drives for data storage and it is annoying to have to > >mount them manually before accessing them (for example to upload stuff from > >the Browser). > > Before we start making changes can you (or Nate) expand on the problem. You > get a file dialog, you click on the drive in the sidebar it implicitly > mounts and we see everything. When do we hit a problem? I have those drives connected before startup and don't remove them often. So I don't get any dialog like one gets when connecting a USB stick during a running session. I also had bookmarked some folders on those drives in Dolphin. Trying to access those without mounting the corresponding drive before failed. Also not sure about save dialogs in Firefox for example. I think I had a problem when I saved a file to an external drive folder before. When trying to save a similar file in a session some days later the save dialog was not able to conveniently offer the last used folder for those files, because the corresponding drive was not mounted. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
