graphical card management for OZ GPE/X

Hi!

I'm sure at least some of you on this list are already
aware that the lack of a graphical card management
applet for easily (un)mounting cards and turning
on/off wifi cards is what I deem OZ's biggest failing
in its current release from my recent postings on the
OESF forums.

There are two existing solutions to this that I'm
aware of- matchbox-card-applet and DeviceHandler (part
of the ROX desktop tools). The matchbox-card-applet is
already in the OZ feeds but is badly broken- it lists
the internal microdrive when it shouldn't, doesn't
show other devices correctly and crashes X when you
try to use it. I've not heard from anyone who has
tried DeviceHandler under OZ so I don't know if it
works or would require patching (probably) to work
properly.

lardman (Si) has pointed out that mb-card-applet makes
use of copyrighted images but these can easily be
removed or replaced without any loss of functionality.
A green/red light next to the device name would be
good enough. 

Has any progress been made addressing this very
important usability issue? As I've said already on the
forums, I believe getting this sorted out would be a
big step towards converting many (including myself)
from cacko/sharp to OZ/GPE.

I think OE/OZ is an amazing project, as important as
Debian or any other major software project so I'd like
to congratulate all you guys on what you're doing for
computing. I'd like to buy an OZ t-shirt to make a
small contribution to its development and to help
raise awareness of it. Do you do such a thing?

dan

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