[NTLUG:Discuss] Where do USB devices appear these days?

[Terry]

Apparently, Suse [and Novell] has gotten a handle on this situation
and will be a lot better situation with the next release, which
appears to be only a couple months away.
--------------
From:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124571,00.asp

"Getting the Picture"

"Novell has also included software that recognizes when a digital
camera is connected to the PC, and offers to transfer images from the
camera's memory to an application called F-Spot, where they can be
cataloged, edited, or posted to a Web site. "
--------------

On 1/31/06, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> I just recently upgraded to SuSE 9.3 from 9.1 and I find that my
> USB devices don't work like they used to.
>
> I'm a pretty dedicated command-line person - so I dislike pointy-clicky
> things.
>
> In the past, it was all very logical - I plugged in my camera or my
> USB thumb drive or hard drive - and a few seconds later, the device
> would be automounted in /media - easy.
>
> Now, one of about four things happens:
>
> 1) Nothing.
>
> 2) The device DOESN'T appear in /media - and the KDE file manager
> thingy pops up (totally un-asked-for) and tells me that my camera
> is in:
>
>      camera://Olympus_whatever/
>
> 3) It appears in /media but the popup thingy doesn't appear.
>
> 4) It appears in /media AND the popup thingy appears.
>
> It's weird.
>
> But what is this URL-like "camera://" thing?  Whatever happened
> to filenames and paths and such?   I presume this is just a
> thin veneer of cuteness over the underlying file system - so
> where *is* 'camera://'.
>
> I *hate* this ongoing cute-ification!
>
> _______________________________________________
> https://ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>


--
<><