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Alan McKinnon schrieb am 11.10.2008 23:06: |
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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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I also think having software that is unmaintained or updated very seldom |
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is not a good thing. I mean you lack features, bug and security fixes |
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here. When I see no progress for an app that I use quite often I search |
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for alternatives and get used to it. |
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You are right hal is quite messy and it is not worth to struggle with as |
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it is not developed any longer [1]. It will be replaced with |
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devicekit, maybe this will be a better implementation. |
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Thunar in combination with thunar-volman works fine here. But it also |
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uses hal and dbus quite much, as most xfce apps. I have no problems with |
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it though. Optical media and external USB devices work fine, other |
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things I don't need. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel |
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[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html |
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