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<title>Device Actions</title>
<authorgroup>
<author><firstname>Ben</firstname><surname>Cooksley</surname></author>
<author>&Anne-Marie.Mahfouf;</author>
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<date>2009-11-21</date>
<releaseinfo>&kde; 4.4</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>System Settings</keyword>
<keyword>Solid</keyword>
<keyword>actions</keyword>
<keyword>devices</keyword>
<keyword>hardware</keyword>
</keywordset>
</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="kcm_solid_actions">
<title><guilabel>Actions for new devices</guilabel></title>
<sect2 id="icons-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>This module allows you to set up the actions you want to associate when
you plug new devices.</para>
<para>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Device Actions Manager</screeninfo>
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      <phrase>Screenshot of the Device Actions Manager</phrase>
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</para>

<para>You will see listed all of the possible actions that are available when
devices are plugged in.
Please note that they will only be available under certain conditions.</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guibutton>Add</guibutton>
   This will ask you to supply a name for your new action, then will open that
action for editing.
   If you do not supply all the required details in that dialog, then your
action will be deleted.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<guibutton>Edit</guibutton>
   This will allow you to change the Name, Icon, command to execute 
   and the conditions the action must match to be shown. 
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<guibutton>Discard / Cannot be deleted / Remove</guibutton>
   This will do different actions, depending on if it was supplied with your
system or created by you.
   You can only discard changes to system wide actions, if there are no changes
then these actions cannot be deleted.
   User created actions are completely removed, including all changes.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="add-action">
<title>Add Action</title>

<para>
The <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button brings you a dialog to enter the
new action name.
</para>
<para>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Add Action dialog</screeninfo>
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</para>
<para>
The action name should correctly describe the action. After entering a name and
clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, the Edit Action dialog will show to allow
you to set up the action properties.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="edit-action">
<title>Edit Action</title>

<para>This dialog allows you to change the settings of the action you
selected.</para>
<para>
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<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Edit Action dialog</screeninfo>
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</para>
<para>
This includes the icon, the action name, the action command and the various
parameters.
You can change the icon by clicking on it.</para>
<para>The parameters are displayed in a
tree, the top item having to be true in order for the action to be shown.</para>

<sect3 id="edit-parameter">
<title>Edit parameter</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Parameter type</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>This controls what can be contained inside it, or
what matching is performed to check if it is true.

<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Property Match</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares the specified property of the Device (using 
<guilabel>Device type</guilabel> and <guilabel>Value name</guilabel>) and using the evaluator, compares it against the
text provided.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Content Conjunction</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>All sub-properties of this must be true for
it to be true itself.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Content Disjunction</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Any sub-property of this may be true for it
to be true itself.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Device interface match</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Checks to see if the Device can be
classed as the selected Device type.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Device type</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>These are the possible device types supported by &kde; on
your system.
They are used in both Property and Device interface matches.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Value name</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>This is a list of all possible property names for the
selected device type.
It also provides the selection of the value evaluator (which is either 
<guilabel>Equals</guilabel> or <guilabel>Contains</guilabel>), and allows
entry of the text to be compared with.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Reset Parameter</guibutton></term>
<listitem>
<para>Reverts any unsaved changes you have made to this parameter.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Save Parameter changes</guibutton></term>
<listitem>
<para>Saves the changes you have made to the parameter.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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