Hi,
> Would it be OK if we dropped support for desktop files that represent
devices?
> This was a KDE1/KDE2/KDE3? feature, you'd write/ship a desktop file
with Type=FSDevice and Dev=/dev/sdc and this would give you Mount and
Unmount in the context menu.
I believe macOS to this day automatically adds storage devices to the
desktop so I could imagine a use case here.
However, with auto-discovery, device notifier, UDisks, etc, I think it's
quite a niche, and I'd happily see this feature gone :)
Cheers
Kai Uwe
Am 26.04.20 um 23:45 schrieb David Faure:
This was useful back then, for USB keys and CDROMs (kids, ask your parents
what that was), before Solid, before the plasma device notification popup...
But has anyone been using this in the last 10 years? I kind of doubt it.
Since I'm refactoring KRun and KDesktopFileActions to be asynchronous and
independent from QtWidgets, I need to know what to do with this IMHO very dead
code. Of course these classes will keep providing the feature, but once I
write a KIO::OpenUrlJob as a replacement for KRun and we port the code to
that, we'll lose the feature from a user's point of view.
Not sure this is really a loss though ;)
