Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 3/7/07, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Arden: >> I am not totally sure, but I think ivman is not required anymore for use >> with dbus and hal. However, I don't use gnome, I only use kde. For >> example, cds and dvds automount and they will open player apps of my >> choice. I don't use ivman. Perhaps ivman provides some functionality >> beyond automounting and opening apps. > > It still is, depending on your use case. HAL just provides the methods > to do things like automount/suspend/etc. But something needs to > coordinate with the user session and tell HAL when to do these things. > In GNOME, this is gnome-volume-manager and gnome-power-manager. In > KDE, I think this is kioslave and kpowersave, but I'm guessing. > > Ivman does the same things without the tight integration with a > specific desktop environment. So, you could use it in fluxbox or > something without pulling in major parts of GNOME/KDE. > > -- > Dan
thanks Shawn for the information. I've used kde a lot on other distributions but for now I find it a great learning experience to employ a simple desktop with fluxbox. When I get tired of this I may install gnome or kde. Arden -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
