On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:38:38 -0800 (PST) P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> said:

> 
> 
> On Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:47:46 PM UTC+8, The Rasterman Carsten 
> Haitzler wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:12:39 -0800 (PST) P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> 
> > said:
> > > Actually the original places module had a very clean presence on the 
> > > desktop. It used to show no internal drives and it would be completely 
> > > invisible  when placed as a gadget. Even mouse clicks would go right 
> > > through it to the desktop. *Only* when you plugged in an external drive, 
> > it 
> > > would show the device icon and show other options. I really enjoyed 
> > using 
> > > places this way. Invisible until you need it and when you want it opens 
> > the 
> > > drives on the fm of your choosing.
> >
> > thats EXACTLY how efm works by default. just delete the icons for 
> > root/home/tmp
> > - they are just files. delete them. u'll have ONLY icons for removable 
> > devices.
> > (well and anything else u have in ~/Desktop)
> >
> >
> > That's true, except for the fact that I can not be comfortable with any 
> file manager other than rox (just like I can not be comfortable with any WM 
> other than e).

yeah.. hal worked. i didn't see a problem with it.. but then it got dumped :(

> This is also why I said that I enjoyed using places, before the whole linux 
> ecosystem went crazy and started killing everything that worked (/me tries 
> hard to not start ranting about hal and *kit and all that).


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------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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