click, drag ... eject! (oh, and logout)

These days you can run KDE apps natively on MacOS .. but that's not what I'm thinking about here. No, I'm thinking about a less recent Mac-related curio, circa 198x: my hand gently grasping the Mac-tethered mouse (cue the chuck-a-wa music here ;) and dragging the disc icon to the trash to eject it. Ooh yeah. Or when things went wrong, the slightly less romantic jabbing at the drive with a straightened paperclip to operate the manual eject mechanism.

While I many not get to relive the paper clip experience, we can do something for my drag-eject nostalgia! A few days back Marco Martin committed a change to the trash plasmoid he's written so that you can drag drives and discs from the Places view in Dolphin, the file open/save dialog, the Computer tab in kickoff, etc to the trash/recyle bin. Once dropped, the volume will be unmounted and, if applicable, the media is ejected.

It uses Solid, of course, to accomplish this: 7 lines of code plus 9 #include'd headers. (More headers than lines of code ... interesting.)

But I swear it's like stepping back to a time of fond childhood memories for me. Click .. drag .. eject! Yay! I may yet wear out the DVD drive on my laptop. ;)

Anyways, it tickled me so much that I just had to blog about it...

Also, since it's apparently all the rage to discuss how one can log out of KDE4, I figured I'd add to the mystery (?) and beauty (?!) of it all. KRunner (or, more accurately, the Sessions runner) understands the following commands: switch user, new session, logout, log out, restart, shutdown and lock. I'm sure you can guess what each one does.