Drive icons on desktop

[O. Sinclair]

Larry Hartman wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2007 06:39:20 am Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>> Larry Hartman wrote:
>>>>> I am not here referring to the CD/DVD icon, which does work "as
>>>>> advertised" but to the harddrive icons which should be fairly
>>>>> permanent on the desktop when kcontrol has them set to appear when
>>>>> mounted.  My original post failed to specify to which ones I was
>>>>> referring.
>>>> K-menu -> system settings -> Look & Feel / Desktop -> Behaviour ->
>>>> Device Icons -> check "Mounted Dard Disk Volume".
>>> Yes - but if they only appear when the CD/DVD is mounted, that is
>>> _very_ odd behaviour.  I think the default setting is to _not_ show
>>> harddrive icons at all and you can choose to always show them, or only
>>> when mounted, but mounting another device should make no difference.
>> If that is what happens, it is really odd. But I understood it in a way
>> that the hard drive icons are missing and only the CD/DVD icons appear.
>> Maybe I misunderstood what happens ...
>>
>>
>> Nils
> 
> Yes, I checked the boxes to have the icons show when mounted....only show when 
> CD/DVD is mounted......so I qualify as odd, nothing new to see here, move 
> along....
> 
> 
> 
> Larry
> 
I have the same behaviour, the icons only show when I use a usb or CD or 
something (even a usb camera actually) but not otherwise. Running 7.10 
with all updates.

Sinclair