On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:16:44 +0100 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said:
> On 31 March 2017 06:02:11 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:12:56 +0200 Pierre Couderc <[email protected]> said: > >> For example : how to mount automatically a USB memory ? What app does > >> that ? > > > > e already does this but it mounts WHEN you open up the device in the > > filemanager. > > The real problems are: > > 1. Getting the system to recognise that.a USB stick has been plugged in. On > all the systems I have installed e on, this does not happen, although if I > log out and then log in with xfce, it then recognises when a USB stick is > inserted. Something in e defeats this, but I'm not skilled enough in > interrupt detection to know what or where to look. works on all my systems. out of the box. :( > 2. Notifying the user. Even when the system recognises the insertion > (evidence: tail -f syslog), I have never seen e pop up anything to say a > USB stick has been inserted. I'm not sure where it would do notification, > especially when the dock at the bottom is slid down. Is it supposed to > raise it? e puts icons on my desktop automatically when this happens that you can click. also they appear in the left pane of efm for "favorite locations" > 3. Not all file managers are created equal. I can't use e's file manager > because black on dark grey is largely unreadable, and I haven't found any how is it black on dark grey? it's white on dark grey for labels and icons generally are also bright though folders are middle grey. definitely not in the default theme for sure. e's screenshot db is full of screenshots like: https://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-58d51310cc8950.43643891.png certainly not black on dark grey at all. > way to make it show the file system hierarchy in a left-hand panel like > other FMs do. Thunar is excellent (despite apparently having some bug yeah. no "filesyytem tree". i never wrote one and didn't want one. it's a windows-ism. my entire desire for the filemanager was to be rather old school like the original amiga workbench and mac filemanagers. that's what i like. > people complain about) and it recognises and mounts inserted media every > time. Dolphin was wonderful until someone took away all its icons: it's now > useless. Gnome's is OK but limited. efm works with removable devices on every system i have. it used to work on ubuntu when i used that and works on all my arch boxes. i've seen the removable device stuff work on debian unstable too. > > it's dangerous to always auto-mount just because you plug some > > removable device in. it means they will forever be "dirty" when you unplug > > them again even if you never used them. > > That would always apply if you fail to unmount the device, regardless of > whether it was auto-mounted or manually-mounted. But auto-mount is evil yes - so just plugging something in means you always have to manually eject/unmount it even if you never touched it or used it. that's bad. very bad. mounting should be an explicit access and for e's file manager it's double-clikcing the icon and opening up a fm view of it and it'll mount automatically. it'll unmount when the last fm view is closed. > because the system cannot know what application I may want to use on each > occasion. > > Peter > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
