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

On Dienstag 03 März 2009, Mico Filós wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am just curious to know what do ion3 users do to manage
> painlessly usb devices and network profiles.
>

Use a filemanager with udev-dbus support like dolphin.
Circumvent the whole udev-dbus stuff by putting your usb devices in 
/etc/fstab or use sudo mount.

> 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.
>
Why do you concider ion3 a non-graphical environment? 

> 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.
>

Usually it would be easy enough to have a shell script for each 
connection profile, except "managing network profiles in a laptop" 
means something that can't be done with a simple script.

Joerg