einar wrote:Point 2: Probably because no one has got around to write that yet.

This is the correct answer

einar wrote:

aapgorilla wrote:Well not having it causes a major headache for us users, it makes konqueror useless for filebrowsing, so out of poverty we are forced to use dolphin

And what I do not understand, why places like dolphin has cannot be used by konqueror

Point 1: Why the absence of "media:/" makes Konqueror useless? I never used it in the 3.5.x and I had no issues;
Point 2: Probably because no one has got around to write that yet.

So how do you access your external media then (mounting them by hand and then naviating to the mount point is not a valid answer)

aapgorilla wrote:So how do you access your external media then (mounting them by hand and then naviating to the mount point is not a valid answer)

I use automount and can access external media from /media.

Very inconvenient as you do not want to automount al drivers and some media is mounted under /media and others under /mnt (and which novice user would know where too look for them)

aapgorilla wrote:Very inconvenient as you do not want to automount al drivers and some media is mounted under /media and others under /mnt (and which novice user would know where too look for them)

Wait what?
Device manager (plasmoid, I'm not completely sure that how it's called) presents the newly inserted media (CD, DVD, USB, External drive) and ask me to mount it and where to open it.
I choose Dolphin and there you go I've mounted external media. It can't get easier than that...
Well it can if you use device manager with automount which you explicitly said you don't want...
I could provide you with screensohts, but you should just try it yourself.
I use this procedure to mount everything even my external disk, and everything gets mounted on /media you have to edit fstab to mount on /mnt.
Something a novice user doesn't even know...

Primoz wrote:

aapgorilla wrote:Very inconvenient as you do not want to automount al drivers and some media is mounted under /media and others under /mnt (and which novice user would know where too look for them)

Wait what?
Device manager (plasmoid, I'm not completely sure that how it's called) presents the newly inserted media (CD, DVD, USB, External drive) and ask me to mount it and where to open it.

I do not have Plasma on my desktop and I don't want it at all. I dislike Dolphin and it is not installed. So where can I mount/unmount external media?

blaze wrote:I do not have Plasma on my desktop and I don't want it at all. I dislike Dolphin and it is not installed. So where can I mount/unmount external media?

you could try Krusader or non-kde file managers
you could look at these:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Mo ... tent=76502
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Ne ... ent=112719
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/mo ... tent=49241

and doesn't the "ubuntu's have a mount manager included in the distro? maybe in system settings?

Dolphin? What is a Dolphin? . I didn't use Dolphin on my FreeBSD machine to today when I red those posts... I try with pictures and it shows jpg but not png. I don't care because I use Geeqie (and GIMP ) but what I like it is Konqueror which I use from...1996 but I use it just as Web browser (I use Opera too). From file managers I use Midnight Commander .

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lumiwa wrote:. I try with pictures and it shows jpg but not png.

it does show png on my system (and other types of picture files).

if it doesn't on your system, the previewing of png is probably switched of or the png file is larger than the max size limit for previewing pictures (which you can change, btw)

blaze wrote:I do not have Plasma on my desktop ?

plasma is the desktop, so unless you have a black screen, you are still using plasma.

aapgorilla wrote:
to finish of positively please add media:/ or places support to konqueror so us non tech savvy crowd can finally ditch dolphin and start using an easy to use file manager again.

Dunno about mandriva, but in opensuse media:/ has been replaced by sysinfo:/, which you can use to access removable media detected by kde.

You can't access unmounted volumes like this (and I not want to automount all volumes). I would like a places plugin in the sidebar similar to dolphin, that shouldn't be to hard should it?

aapgorilla wrote:You can't access unmounted volumes like this

I tried it and it works for me, so why wouldn't it work for you?
i open sysinfo:/ in konqueror, it shows the detected but not mounted dvd in my player, i click on it, kde shows the dialog which asks me what to do with this media, i select open in filemanager en konqueror opens, showing the contents of the dvd.

This is exactly how it works with dolphin, only this time i made konqueror the default file manager in kde's systemsettings.
sysinfo:/ is by the way a protocol only konqueror understands. Dolphin cannot handle it (dolphin opens konqueror in stead )

aapgorilla wrote: I would like a places plugin in the sidebar similar to dolphin,

So you want konqueror to act more like dolphin

Riinse wrote:

aapgorilla wrote:You can't access unmounted volumes like this

I tried it and it works for me, so why wouldn't it work for you?

Tried this in mandriva with kde 4.2, and indeed: it can't be done.
Difference between mandriva and opensuse in this case is that opensuse shows a clickable entry in sysinfo for removable media, while mandriva (at least in kde 4.2) doesn't. Mandriva's sysinfo only shows information that removable media has been detected, but does not give any options to mount it.

I hope the suse hack is now upstream in kde 4.4 available for everyone...