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Yes. The old kde3 options for autologically popping up an icon for pluggables/dvd/cd etc would be great.

I like the device notifier in taskbar but it would be nice to also have an icon appear on desktop. I know there is a widget that does that but that gives a lovely (and huge on this small laptop) window that is empty most of the time.

Yes, this in one of the items I miss the most in kde4

@slackhead: you do know, I presume, that if you click on the notifier icon it hides itself? You don't need to keep it visible.

I believe the desktop icon option is to return, though I can't recall whether it is in 4.4 or in preparation for 4.5. Nor can I remember reading whether it will be the default or needing some setting. Doubtless we will hear more when it's ready.

I think this needs to be a plasma widget, not a part of the desktop. One that resizes automatically would be good, though.

widgets add too much junk container box, tool boxes sometimes even some text)

The plasma desktop is merely a container for widgets, there should not be anything appearing directly on it. If you want icons on your desktop, you can use the folderview containment, but the default containment should not have anything appear on it by default. What if I want to put the device icons somewhere specific? What if I want them on more than one desktop? What if I want to remove them entirely? Plasma gives us this flexibility. Just sticking them on the desktop does not. It is perfectly possible to make a plasma widget with no or minimal background and no text (look at the clock or notes plasmoid).

TheBlackCat wrote:The plasma desktop is merely a container for widgets, there should not be anything appearing directly on it. If you want icons on your desktop, you can use the folderview containment, but the default containment should not have anything appear on it by default. What if I want to put the device icons somewhere specific? What if I want them on more than one desktop? What if I want to remove them entirely? Plasma gives us this flexibility. Just sticking them on the desktop does not. It is perfectly possible to make a plasma widget with no or minimal background and no text (look at the clock or notes plasmoid).

/palyingdevilsadvocate:
Still an option wouldn't hurt.
Just some kind of symlink something like that in Desktop folder so that when I insert a CD or flash drive, this symlink links to the said device, so when I click on it it opens dolphin.

"Add an option" is not always a good solution. I think there is already a clear, built-in method to accomplish this: widgets. Adding an option for something that would be better served in every way by a widget does not seem like a good approach to me. What advantages would having this built into the containment have over a widget?

I disagree with this happening when using a plasma desktop but when using the folderview desktop I think it's a great idea.