KDE 3.5.5 in ports

Tuesday, 19 December 2006

KDE 3.5.5 has been committed to ports.

UPDATING:

20061219:
  AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
  AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org

If you choose to enable the HAL backend for the media kioslave,
you should enable D-Bus, HAL and PolicyKit during system startup.
To do this, add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:


dbus_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"


Notes / known problems about mounting devices in media:/ with HAL enabled:


    

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    Your user must be in group operator in order to be able to mount removable
media.
    

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    Removable media drives (such as CD-ROM drives) MUST NOT be listed in
/etc/fstab in order to be mountable.
    

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    If you mount a volume by double-clicking it, it may appear empty. Refresh
the fileview in Konqueror to see the files.
    

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    Mounting floppies is currently not supported.
    

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You can still mount them in KDE if...


    

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    You have an fstab entry for your floppy pointing to a mountpoint
owned by your user (i.e. somewhere in your homedir).
    

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    The vfs.usermount sysctl is set to 1.
    

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...by creating a floppy device icon on your KDE desktop and selecting
the above-mentioned fstab entry in the device dropdown list on the
device tab.


    

  • Mounting volumes from fixed drives is prohibited for non-superusers
by default.

For more information about KDE 3.5.5, see the KDE 3.5.5 info page.