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On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:18:24 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 13:24:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > Is there a replacement for ivman? |
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> What exactly do you do with it, which filesystems do you mount with it? |
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At the moment mostly just hot-plug stuff on USB with your standard |
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fat/ext2,3/reiser/nfts file systems, plus optical media. I also have an |
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sd/mmc reader and firewire on this notebook, neither of which I've never used |
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but probably should. |
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HAL and the various things one could do with it's events is something I've |
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stayed away from studying. Maybe early versions were confusingly |
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documented... and all those xml files... I was reading a wiki page on my |
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make/model notebook to see if I could improve on how I was using the |
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hardware, this came up and looked useful. Automounting is the most obvious |
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case, especially as e17 doesn't do it well - I get an ugly icon on the |
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desktop and a long description string that is truncated at about 10 |
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characters, so the system is worse than useless. I resort to using konqueror |
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with it's media:/ kio-slave instead, which feels clunky and more of a |
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work-around than a proper desktop configuration. |
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If there's something better than ivman, or if I really should be configuration |
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HAL directly, then I'm all ears, but I do get the impression that one really |
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should be working with HAL via a front-end for true ease of use |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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