>> > Safely Remove does not work. That is, using that option will unmount
>> the
>> > device but does not remove the icon from the desktop.
>>
>> Likely a udev/eject problem; it works here but your previous
>> comments indicate that your udev subsystem may not be working as well
>> for some reason.
>>
>> > * Eject does not work with CDs/DVDs.
>>
>> See above comment.; not likely to be a TDE problem.
>
> I tested this under Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 in Slackware 14. With both
> desktops eject works for optical disks and the icons disappear with the
> equivalent of Safely Remove. I don't think the problem is udev/eject
> problem. Also nobody is reporting eject problems with Slackware 14.

Those two systems probably use a different method to request an eject
operation.  Does 'eject' work from the command line at all on your system?

Regarding the CD/DVD mountpoint, I am not entirely comfortable using the
disk volume name as the mountpoint.  I am especially concerned about what
might happen if more than one disk uses the same name--normally this
results in a nested mount on Linux, which is NOT what would be desired in
this case.

Tim