Comment 11 for bug 1256591

(In reply to comment #5)
> Cheers for that - how come it appears in Gimp, does that have a
> differnt method of mounting? The file menu in Kate looked Dolphinesque
> to me....

KDE applications use the Solid library from kdelibs for retrieving information about the devices which are available at the moment, and non-KDE applications like Gimp most likely use something else. This does not necessarily have anything to do with the actual mounting.

> + can you forward me the link to the "solid library" bug report so I

It's still the same bug report, it's just been reassigned to a different product.

> Is there anything else I can do to help find the cause of the problem?

I don't know, sorry.