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.