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