plasma-netbook startup cdrom detection

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 15:26:04 Harald Sitter wrote:
> 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.

That's my recollection as well (to reduce false positives on small screen 
notebooks).

Scott K