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The problem is:

Posted Feb 24, 2006 15:16 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Question: by zlynx
Parent article: KDE 4 developers look toward new desktop possibilities (NewsForge)

HAL is sending the wrong DBUS/DCOP messages to the wrong recipients... AND
the recipients aren't acting right on the messages. In my case, I would
like HAL to send the messages only to the "foreground" guy; and the
"foreground" guy should receive just a minor visual notification (tray
area) and/or an update if one of his file managers point
to /media/cdrom... This thing is the only thing in KDE I consider "crude".
The rest of KDE, to me, is Just Perfect (tm).

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Posted Feb 24, 2006 16:50 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

DBUS doesn't decide who to send things to. It sends them to any program that wants to listen to those messages.

It should be the responsibility of KDE to notice that it isn't running on the active terminal, and not mount the CD.

I'm positive that you can change KDE options so it doesn't auto-mount your CDs, if you don't want it to. I'm not sure about providing visual notification but what would be the point, since you would know you had just plugged in a CD or USB drive.

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Posted Feb 26, 2006 14:35 UTC (Sun) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

If that's true that represents a serious security hole. Only the processed with the right privileges should receive these events. And the right privileges in this case should be set by the login program (the display manager).