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As for usb:/ kioslave, it could mount/ unmount automatically and immediately when write is finished: users shouldn't have to manually unmount usb drives any more and could just unplug device (many users are doing this anyway)

Lets say add delay of 5sec before unmount. If no actions is going on - unmount. Kioslave could cache the mount data and software itself would see devices as mounted, then they are not.

This should be configurable together with performance and caching options (as far as i know delayed writing gives better performance or something).

Anyway, when you deal with usb keys an small files, you wont feel a difference eve between 2mbps and 20mbps transfer rate.

Lukas wrote:The only problem I could imagine is the software synchronizes the data form camera. But thats a particular software problem, not camera.

For that case you must start that imaginary "software", that would be an action and therefore probably wanted by the user. Mount is not equal to transfer data, therefore I'm not afraid of this.

Right now the handling of inserted devices such as USB mass storage is poor with the requirement that Dolphin be opened for every mount even if Dolphin will not be used. As annoying as the pop-up window could be in KDE 3.5, I found its behavior far more useful as I could dismiss the dialog with <Escape> and then right-click the desktop icon to mount the device when I was ready or I could choose an action from the dialog. I always felt this was a clever way to handle the devices.

As I see it after reading the comments,

* Automounting/unmounting must be configurable, especially the unmounting. In no way would I want the system deciding to remove a mount unless the device were physically removed or otherwise no longer accessable.

* If the option to automount is not enabled, then a menu selection must be made available to manually mount the device. Having an option menu selection available to mount the device when the device entry is right-clicked in device notifier would satisfy me.

* The idea by Lukas of the Notifier changing color based on the state of the device is a very good one.

I actually really, really like the device notifier plasmoid: it's not a pop-up that steals focus from my work (which is incredibly irritating), nor is it a desktop icon that requires that I minimize all windows before I can get at it (which is also quite annoying). Automounting would be nice, but I can't vote this idea up if the idea means, 'get rid of this plasmoid'.

@blueget
You could even say "mount only" in the device-notifier. So you wouldn't have to open Dolphin or Konqueror.

The User wrote:@blueget
You could even say "mount only" in the device-notifier. So you wouldn't have to open Dolphin or Konqueror.

From what I've seen on MLs that would be popular

Another thing I've seen asked for is the ability to re-order the actions, similar to the way you reorder file associations. Keen photographers would have digikam or gwenview at the top and file fiddlers would have dolphin.

Would that be hard to do?

@annew
I wouldn't say hard, but a few hundred lines of boring GUI and configuration-code...