Hi, Mico! I'm risking to get a pail of slops on my head but stupid, braindead, shit-styled, awful, G*d damned, and despite this widely used desktop environments like *nome, *DE, *FCE etc are much more user friendly than progressive (and marginal, be honest) ones. I use Ion since 2nd release and quite bored to fix daughter windows properties for some poorly designed (actually just not Ion-designed) applications. Last times I run *nome-panel before Ion in my .xsession to get a bit of usability and comfortable mounting also.
I like Ion. I like its minimalism. But actually I like the possibility to create/destroy as much desktops as I want and make it dynamically. That is all I really need. Now I'm looking for possibility of this in *nome DE or FVWM, which can be runned beneath *nome DE. If I'd do, I'll leave Ion forever. Man must be ready for hard decisions, yeah... On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:29:06 -0500 Mico Filós <elmico.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am just curious to know what do ion3 users do to manage painlessly > usb devices and network profiles. > > I've done my tinkering with udev to configure my usb gadgets, but when > I have to read others' pendrives I simply spend an embarassingly long > time trying to figure out what node the device is attached to (plus > additional time spent on mount points & permissions issues). I've > heard that graphical environments like gnome or kde do that quite > automatically, but I don't see why a non-graphical environment could > not do the same thing. > > The same goes for managing network profiles in a laptop. Gnome has > network-manager, a graphical tool that seems to do a good job. Again, > there is no need to rely on a widget to do this kind of task, but I > haven't found yet a convincing non-graphical solution. > > Any ideas? > > Best