how to disable media:/ feature?

[bruce]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 08:08, Art Alexion wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> >folders won't exist until the corresponding /dev node is created
> >- ie, if you don't have a permanently attached floppy drive you
> > won't always have a folder in /media.
> >
> >Do you have an entry for the floppy in /etc/fstab?  If so, I'd
> > remove it...
>
> My problem is related.  In my prior KDE (whatever Hoary came with),
> if I inserted an audio or blank disk in the CD-ROM, an icon for it
> would appear on the desktop -- nothing more -- nice.  Now with Breezy
> 3.4.3, every time I insert an audio CD, Konqueror opens up with it --
> a lot of useless CPU cycles since 99.9% of the time, I just close it.
>  And every time I insert a blank disk, Konqueror *tries* to open it,
> but just displays an error.  Very annoying.  It is a "media:/" thing,
> too.  OTOH, media:/ does nothing when I attach my USB storage in my
> Clie, i.e. when I actually want it to.

Just an observation here.  <diatribe by grouch> One of the reasons I 
chose Linux over some microsoft OS is that  I like to think I have a 
little more control over my machine.  When I stick a cd in my drive and 
then go to a terminal window to start typing in a 'mount' command, I 
don't want to see conqueror pop up with something about the cd.  A 
simple "noauto" in fstab takes care of that.

There have been many times when I was unable to remove a cd because 
conqueror had mounted it and still controlled it after I was through 
with it.  (This was before Kubuntu, though.)

But the bigger problem I see is the growing acceptance of the Microsoft 
philosophy which goes something like, "Ninety percent of those using 
this program (or function or command) will want to do such-and-so, so 
we will just go ahead and do it automatically for everyone."  I'd 
rather boot to a terminal and type "startx" than let the computer do it 
because once in a while I don't want a graphical interface.  

If I want to save a file I want to put it in a directory, not on a 
desktop.  I have four desktops and I haven't seen any of them for weeks 
because they are full of programs.
</diatribe by grouch>
bruce