I'm referring to the batch of packages at 
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/releases/3.5.13.2/downloads.html
as the "official"  3.5.13.2 SRU, and was wondering if things like the old KDE 
desktop-popup-on-usbstick-insert is expected to work?

I'm running hal-0.5.14, though that may not have been installed at the time I 
compiled kdelibs-trinity-3.5.13.2.  I do notice that the 
kdelibs-trinity-3.5.13.2 that's on the official 3.5.13.2 SRU release page 
does _not_ have a visible "WITH_HAL" option, nor any other h/w related 
settings such as "WITH_UDISK" etc.

So is it a known "feature" that this release doesn't isn't expected to work 
with hot-pluggable h/w, or is it just me?

z.