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