plasma-netbook startup cdrom detection

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Philip Muskovac <yofel at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

virtual machines I think.

though, IIRC there was also a general concern with pulling up the
netbook UI on not netbook machines and netbook machines do not ever
have a drive, hence that check.

HS