I run Gnome on my desktop. I have only a minimal understanding of its internals. In it, I have seen a feature that I really like, - and several features that I really don't like.
The features that I don't like are motivating me to consider moving to a different, less featureful, desktop environment. But I have no idea how to set up the one feature that I really like: I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way a device that has a label given to it is mounted on a mount-point that is named with that label, and when I un-mount the device that mount point is removed from /media - all automatically. What are the packages that actually implement this feature? Can I simply install those packages and have the feature without having the rest of Gnome? Does it come automatically if I attempt to transition to Xfce, for example? I'm pretty sure the feature also comes with KDE, but that, I think, is unlikely to be free of un-desired features. A feature of Gnome that I especially really really don't like is the use of multiple different names for the same thing in the user documentation. I have lost count of the different variations on network-manager that appear on the screen and in the docs. Not good, IMHO. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
