> In KDE 3.5.10, with floppy drive polling explicitly disabled with HAL, the > Unmounted Floppy icon appears on my desktop. This provides me a means to > manually mount floppy disks. Yeah, once in a blue moon I still use > floppies (I have some old computers with no USB support). > > BTW, disabling polling stops the clicking sound. > > With Trinity, the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon no longer appears. I > presume this has something to do with polling being disabled. > > I can get the Unmounted Floppy icon to appear by inserting a USB flash > drive. This seems to refresh the desktop. But this lasts only for that > session. Next restart of Trinity and the Unmounted Floppy desktop icon is > gone. > > Is this different behavior a bug or a "feature"? It's a bug. You will also notice it occurring with unmounted CD drives and hard disks. Tim