Accessing devices through .desktop files

Hi. I'm quite a new Arch user, and I miss some kind of a center place where all icons for device access are located, like Window's My Computer. I thought I'd make one for me
But I cannot access a device when it's not mounted. I can create a .desktop file pointing to /dev/dvd for example, but it only works when DVD has been selected in the "Recently plugged devices" plasmoid or opened in Dolphin. Before that, it is not mounted, and therefore, I can't access it. So what I'd like is the ability to automount DVDs/CDs/pendrives/memory cards as soon as they are plugged in, not when a program tries to access them. I tried to tinker with /etc/fstab a little, but as it turns out, my pendrive doesn't always use the form of the same file in /dev/ it can be /dev/sdf, /dev/sdg...
Is there an easy way to do this? I don't only mean pendrive, but a set of .desktop files which will point me to all periherals. (I've got a card reader with 4 slots, so it would be geart to have 4 .desktop files for the cards only)

The confusion of Mac OS 9 versus Mac OS X desktops is understandable. The logical path as it is called of both are different. Mac OS X, being a multi user system has its own Desktop folder for each user. What you see on the Desktop in Mac OS X, is under:
Hard drive -> Users -> logged in name -> Desktop
What you see on the desktop in Mac OS 9 if no multiple users is set, is in:
Hard drive -> Desktop Folder.
In earlier versions of Mac OS X, you had an alias to Desktop Mac OS 9 in your Home folder which pointed to Hard drive -> Desktop Folder.
You can still access it by using the Finder's Go menu -> Go to folder and select the path:
/Desktop Folder/
That will access the boot drive's Desktop folder.
If you have another Desktop folder you wish to access, go to
/Volumes/name of volume/Desktop Folder/
By default Mac OS 9 does not have multiple users set, and ties Desktop folders to the volumes that have them, and not a User folder.

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