Re: [Slightly-OT] On usability: managing usb devices & network profiles in a ion3 environment

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 <[email protected]> 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