Bob Alexander wrote: > Dear friends, > I currently run a Gnome desktop but also have some KDE appls I cannot > seem to live with including Konqueror and k3b. > > Of Gnome I like the project utopia stuff (hal, d-bus, hotplug etc.). > > Question 1) What is the state of the art for KDE discovering, loading > modules and automagically mount peripherals (such as USB keys or CDs for > example) ? hal, dbus, hotplug, udev and pmount. They're not gnome apps. -- derek