Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 21:18 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it > > > mounted automatically within

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 21:18 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > 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 giv

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul E Condon wrote: > 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 t

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Clive Standbridge
> 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 re

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul E Condon: > > 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? Xfce has a checkbox somewhere in the settings

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo,06.aug.09, 10:48:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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 wh

about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-06 Thread Paul E Condon
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 environmen