38

Every time I plugin my USB drive or USB Modem, Device notifier window pops up.

This is very irritating as my dolphin window is always open and I just click on the drive when it appears in the list of places in dolphin.

I think there should be option in device notifier to disable popup.

There can be another option under that to enable popup if new device is plugged in which is have not been mounted before.

If you don't need the device notifier, just remove it from the panel. You can unmount your devices from dolphin too.

RGB wrote:If you don't need the device notifier, just remove it from the panel. You can unmount your devices from dolphin too.

Thanks. This is a good solution. I never thought in this direction.

I think we can mark this as existing as I have option to remove this from panel and stop getting notified.

But people still might want to quickly access their removable media. I think it is still valid.

Not denying the validity of this idea, just to mention another /compromise/ solution until (if) this gets implemented.

You can remove the device notification plasmoid as already stated, and add the Shelf applet and show Removable devices in it. (applies to the forthcoming KDE SC 4.5)

TheBlackCat wrote:But people still might want to quickly access their removable media. I think it is still valid.

And since the OP mentioned a USB-modem, it wouldn't be hard to see some people wanting be alerted to the presence of such a device but not to be alerted to the presence of a new external storage device.

If someone's to work on implementing this, I would suggest adding a "Suppress showing this unit in device notifier popup" (or words to that effect) in the "Removable devices" kcm.

It sounds like a minor point, but this is also useful as a battery-saving strategy. I'd like to use the device notifier without having plasma popups throwing themselves at me at every opportunity, especially when I'm on battery power. Plasma notification (of any sort) are not particularly light on cpu usage (at least from a Core Solo 1.06GHz user).