RE: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-05-01 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-05-01 Thread Mick
On 01/05/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip...] I would be interested in making this happen under fluxbox as well --- Particularly automounting usb key drives, as well as the flash cards from my digital camera Well you could used fbdesk if you want icons on your desktop,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 20:47 -0400, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:46:15 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hi Jim, I won't bother echoing everyone elses response as to how.. however, out of curiousity I was wondering what your wife's reasoning for wanting Gentoo on her computer is when she does not want to learn how stuff works? :)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread michael
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:47:26 -0400 JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home

[gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread JimD
Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Jorge Martín
Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too..On 4/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut?I am looking for basic home user stuff formy wife such as:Automount/play a music

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jorge Martín wrote: Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too.. On 4/29/06, *JimD* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread JimD
Ryan Tandy wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). Ah, OK. I will give those a try. I hope I don't have too much recompiling :