Re: [rox-devel] rox-desktop, HAL and Debian / rox filer copy

[Alexander W. <a.w...@ph...>]

On 2006-04-24, Dan MacDonald <da...@ya...> wrote:

Hi!

> guide on the rox site on how to set up HAL but it
> looked like a helluva hassle for a lazy get like me so
> I currently exit to KDE when I want to use any USB
> drives. I'd also be much more likely to recommend rox
> over KDE and GNOME to any (potential) Linux users if a
> rox-desktop Debian package arrived.
>
> I've heard dyne:bolic comes with rox desktop as
> standard- are there any other distros that support rox
> outatha box, with HAL support pre-configured,
> preferably?

Well IMHO one of the best ways to handle HAL is by "aptitude
purge" (If ever I'll understand what HAL does beyond causing
serious headache and tons of problems I'll let you know. ;)
But to your problem... 

I use rox all the time to access my USB devices. What I do
is adding something like

/dev/usbstick1  /media/usb1   auto  user,noauto,sync  0 0 

to /etc/fstab and an appropriate rule for the USB-Stick to
the udev, so it gets assigned the proper device
(/dev/usbstickN in my case, use whaterver you like best).
Now I have a nice /media/usb1 mountpoint, plug in my usb
device and, aehm well, just click on it using the filer...
RMB-> Eject handles umount.

Details for this setup may be found on my Thinkpad-Page at
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/computer/T41p

It's really easy to adopt. And other than HAL it just works
and the best: it does this all the time, I've all necessary
rights on my device and so on.

A short comment on the rox desktop: though I note that some
people really like for some reasons I don't and it would be
really bad for rox if it made the same mistake as gnome and
glue everythign together to a "one fits nothing" package. So
for me a to tight integration of all parts to one single
desktop seems not advisable, espcially not integrating to
much low level stuff. If gnome wouldn't have started
this in 2.x I'd still use it all the time. But I like my
WindowMaker and so on...

-- 

Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner