kde 3.x was easy. When I plugged in a usb drive I got a desktop icon and I mounted it.
kde 4.2.1 as installed with Fedora 10 is totally frustrating.
When I plug in the drive the device notifier says I have 2 choices.
1) Open with Dolphin
2) Download Photos.

I don't want to do either. I just want to mount it so I can access files.
If I say do nothing it doesn't get mounted and it's an extra step. Plus there is no icon to unmount it.
I want to access the drive with konqueror. Frankly dolphin sucks.
I started using kde with version 1.x and Red Hat 5.2 I think? You are making a gnome user out of me.
I want to stick with kde, I think the fonts and graphics are far superior to gnome but kde 4.2 keeps telling me how I should run my computer rather than just get out of my way and do what I ask.

You can make konqueror the default file manager, you can do this in the kde control centre>default applications>file manager. The Device Notifier will still say open with dolphin but it'll open with Konqueror.

You can unmount it from the Device Notifier by clicking the eject button that appears when you hover with the mouse over the device.

There is a Automounting device notifier available from kde-apps.org I believe.

A context menu for the device notifier would still be useful. Then you could have entries like mount and unmount. Seriously, we users promise not to hurt ourselves if you give us back our context menus!

medo3891 wrote:You can make konqueror the default file manager, you can do this in the kde control centre>default applications>file manager. The Device Notifier will still say open with dolphin but it'll open with Konqueror.

You can unmount it from the Device Notifier by clicking the eject button that appears when you hover with the mouse over the device.

The file manager is set to konqueror. I changed it and changed it back just to make sure.
Plug in a usb device and I get the choice of Dolphin or Download....digiKam.

I don't want either. I just want to mount the device.
I hover the mouse over the device and I do not get an option to unmount.
I have to open a shell and use the umount command.
I have been a Unix system admin for over 25 years. I cut my teeth on SGI IRIX and work with HPUX, Solaris 8, 9 and 10 and RHEL. I set up the first Linux server, a sendmail server with Red Hat 6.0, at my employer a large major US corporation.
I truly do not enjoy being told how I should interact with my system. I do not enjoy a window manager that gets in my way to the extent that KDE 4.2.1 does.
I work in a software R&D group that is strictly Linux and I understand the developer mind set. Really, I do but it is time to abandon 4.X and go back to the fine WM that KDE 3.X is. Give it up!

There is an automount version of the Device Notifier available on kde-apps.org, which should meet your requirements. Hovering over a device mounted through the device notifier should show an eject icon, which will allow you to unmount the device.

rer wrote:
The file manager is set to konqueror. I changed it and changed it back just to make sure.
Plug in a usb device and I get the choice of Dolphin or Download....digiKam.

I don't want either. I just want to mount the device.

This has been one of the big frustrations for me with KDE4. With 3, when a device that hadn't been seen before was plugged in, I got a dialogue popping up asking me how I wanted that device handled and giving me the option to have that device handled that way every time it was plugged in.

So, for example, I could write a script that was run whenever my camera was plugged in so that it got mounted and the photos got transferred to my hard drive and the programs I wanted to us to work with them were started.

Now I have to sit waiting for the device notifier to pop up and then I have to run the script manually[1]. And since 4.2, the sodding device notifier doesn't even go away until I click on it - at least with 4.1 it was possible to configure it to close after a predetermined time.

[1] OK, not a BIG increase in the amount of work I have to do, but still retrograde to someone like me who's spent much of his nearly 30 years working with computers in automating tasks to reduce the amount of un-necessary interaction needed to do them.