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<title>Device Actions</title>
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<author><firstname>Ben</firstname><surname>Cooksley</surname></author>
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<author>&Anne-Marie.Mahfouf;</author>
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<date>2013-12-05</date>
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<releaseinfo>&kde; 4.12</releaseinfo>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>System Settings</keyword>
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<keyword>Solid</keyword>
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<keyword>actions</keyword>
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<keyword>devices</keyword>
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<keyword>hardware</keyword>
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<sect1 id="kcm_solid_actions">
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<title>Actions for new devices</title>
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<sect2 id="icons-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This module allows you to set up the actions you want to associate when
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you plug new devices.</para>
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<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Device Actions Manager</screeninfo>
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<imagedata fileref="main.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>Screenshot of the Device Actions Manager</phrase>
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<para>You will see listed all of the possible actions that are available when
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devices are plugged in.
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Please note that they will only be available under certain conditions.</para>
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<listitem><para><guibutton>Add</guibutton>
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This will ask you to supply a name for your new action, then will open that
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If you do not supply all the required details in that dialog, then your
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action will be deleted.
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<guibutton>Edit</guibutton>
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This will allow you to change the Name, Icon, command to execute
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and the conditions the action must match to be shown.
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<guibutton>Discard / Cannot be deleted / Remove</guibutton>
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This will do different actions, depending on if it was supplied with your
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system or created by you.
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You can only discard changes to system wide actions, if there are no changes
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then these actions cannot be deleted.
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User created actions are completely removed, including all changes.
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<sect2 id="add-action">
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<title>Add Action</title>
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The <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button brings you a dialog to enter the
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<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Add Action dialog</screeninfo>
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<imagedata fileref="add-action.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>Screenshot of the Add Action dialog</phrase>
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The action name should correctly describe the action. After entering a name and
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clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, the Edit Action dialog will show to allow
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you to set up the action properties.
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<sect2 id="edit-action">
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<title>Edit Action</title>
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<para>This dialog allows you to change the settings of the action you
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<screeninfo>Screenshot of the Edit Action dialog</screeninfo>
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<imagedata fileref="edit-action.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>Screenshot of the Edit Action dialog</phrase>
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This includes the icon, the action name, the action command and the various
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You can change the icon by clicking on it.</para>
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<para>The parameters are displayed in a
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tree, the top item having to be true in order for the action to be shown.</para>
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<sect3 id="edit-parameter">
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<title>Edit parameter</title>
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Parameter type</guilabel></term>
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<para>This controls what can be contained inside it, or
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what matching is performed to check if it is true.
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Property Match</guilabel></term>
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<para>Compares the specified property of the Device (using
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<guilabel>Device type</guilabel> and <guilabel>Value name</guilabel>) and using the evaluator, compares it against the
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text provided.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Content Conjunction</guilabel></term>
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<para>All sub-properties of this must be true for
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it to be true itself.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Content Disjunction</guilabel></term>
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<para>Any sub-property of this may be true for it
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to be true itself.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Device interface match</guilabel></term>
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<para>Checks to see if the Device can be
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classed as the selected Device type.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Device type</guilabel></term>
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<para>These are the possible device types supported by &kde; on
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They are used in both Property and Device interface matches.
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<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Value name</guilabel></term>
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<para>This is a list of all possible property names for the
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selected device type.
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It also provides the selection of the value evaluator (which is either
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<guilabel>Equals</guilabel> or <guilabel>Contains</guilabel>), and allows
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entry of the text to be compared with.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Reset Parameter</guibutton></term>
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<para>Reverts any unsaved changes you have made to this parameter.</para>
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<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Save Parameter changes</guibutton></term>
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<para>Saves the changes you have made to the parameter.</para>
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