Remove "Removable Storage" from KDE menu

[marmarek]

Reported by marmarek on 22 Jan 2013 21:51 UTC
It is confusing to the user. It mounts the disk in dom0 and prompts for application to open it. Even when user chooses VM file manager, the device (of course) isn't attached there.

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/702

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 8 Feb 2013 12:55 UTC
Ok, so our goal is to ultimately do not connected any USB controllers to Dom0 and have all of them connected to other VMs, specifically to UsbVM that is going to be created, by default, during installation. This would require to not have USB keyboard/mouse, which, luckily, is the case for majority of laptops today. Additionally it would be convenient to also have working pvusb support (#531).

Having no USB controllers in Dom0 would offer many benefits, such as protection against numerous attacks via USB devices. Also, it would solve the problem reported in this ticket, i.e. confusing KDE menus for accessing attached USB storage from Dom0.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 8 Feb 2013 12:55 UTC
Ok, so our goal is to ultimately do not connected any USB controllers to Dom0 and have all of them connected to other VMs, specifically to UsbVM that is going to be created, by default, during installation. This would require to not have USB keyboard/mouse, which, luckily, is the case for majority of laptops today. Additionally it would be convenient to also have working pvusb support (#531).

Having no USB controllers in Dom0 would offer many benefits, such as protection against numerous attacks via USB devices. Also, it would solve the problem reported in this ticket, i.e. confusing KDE menus for accessing attached USB storage from Dom0.

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 21 Feb 2013 03:30 UTC
Now the default is "standard" menu which doesn't contain this page. Also KDE device notification applet is disabled. So basically this ticket is resolved.

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 21 Feb 2013 03:30 UTC
Now the default is "standard" menu which doesn't contain this page. Also KDE device notification applet is disabled. So basically this ticket is resolved.