Mounting media - 8.10 Intrepid

[Art Alexion]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/9 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>> How does the mdia mounting in 8.10 Intrepid work?

>> It seems that it mounts when the taskbar icon 'Renectly mounted media (or something like that) is
>> clicked and then the item itself is clicked - which then opens it it Dolphin?!!
>
> Why not? Aren't you opening a direcotry? Are you suggesting that
> Kubuntu should recognize it as a video DVD and give an option to open
> in a media player? If so, that does sound logical and you (or I) can
> file a bug.
>
>> Why is thee no
>> option about how or with what to open it? I wanted to watch a DVD and had to first open Xine then
>>  play the DVD.

Well, yes.  KDE 3 (and Windows) does detect that it is a video DVD,
and asks you whether you want to browse it, play it in Kaffeine, copy
it with k3b, or rip it with k3b.  I believe the behavior that Nigel
describes is the way gnome does it.

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