plasma-netbook startup cdrom detection

Philip Muskovac yofel at gmx.net
Tue Feb 25 14:20:02 UTC 2014


Hi,

To start plasma-netbook on 'Netbooks' we added a check to startkde that checks 
whether laptop-detect return true, whether the display height is between 0 and 
700px, whether an optical drive exists or whether netbook was explicitely 
requested [1].
As the optical drive check depends on udisks, it's broken on new installs 
since we switched to udisks2.

Why are we checking for an optical drive again? As I understand it, the 
plasma-netbook interface was mostly about efficient screen space usage.

If someone remembers why checking for an optical drive is useful here I'll try 
to fix this, otherwise I'll just remove the udisks code from startkde.

Philip

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-packagers/kubuntu-packaging/kde-workspace/view/head:/debian/patches/kubuntu_plasma_netbook_for_small_screens.diff



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