> 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