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Automounting in KDE4

Hey again, nice to see y’all. I had to take a summer-long hiatus from the FLOSS world due to some more important events in my personal life, but I’m slowly crawling back.

But thats boring stuff nobody wants to hear about, so how about this neat bit of info: I’m working on getting removable media automounting back into KDE4. Sometime last night I was browsing b.k.o looking at the various junior jobs, when I found #164053 – KDE should automatically mount all removable media at logon or when plugging in. First thing this morning, I started looking into it. I poked around with Solid to see what was capable, and I eventually got down to work. A few hours later, I commited my device-automounter to playground.

So check it out and give it a shot. Right now its just a KDED module and a KCM page, and I hope it can stay that simple. Eventually I hope to add a bit more intelligence to it, such as only mounting devices at login if they were mounted when you logged out. That way the bug report would be fulfilled properly.

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