[plug] KDE / Debian desktop-link question

[Denis Brown]

Dear Plug gurus,

When I run a simple floppy mount or unmount script from an icon on KDE 
desktop, there is a lot of activity from the floppy drive (for mounting) 
and the KDE "I am busy!" egg timer keeps running for 15, maybe 20 
seconds.  Executing a mount (umount) from a Konsole completes in no time at 
all.   Why and what is going on during the "busy" time?   The reason for 
doing things this way is to avoid the need for non-technical people to deal 
with command-line sessions.

My scripts are:
#!/bin/sh
mount /floppy    (and of course umount /floppy as appropriate)

In fstab I set the floppy mounting option to "users" so any user can 
perform the mounting/unmounting.

On the KDE desktop I right-click and create a new application icon, linked 
to the appropriate script.

If I run top in a Konsole, I can see the mount (umount) process flick up 
and then off again but there's nothing - to me - abnormal or significant 
about any other process that's running during the extended "busy" activity, 
at least none that make top's "top 20" tasks, anyway.

Platform:  KDE 3.1.2 and Debian GNUI/Linux woody with 2.4.19 kernel.

Thoughts appreciated!
Denis