Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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
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