Okay. Bug report 385 filed.

> > 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.