Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 16:09 schrieb houghi:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:54:17PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 15:41 schrieb Michael Galloway:
one of the things that makes linux work for me is that the gui is not the os, i can have any form of gui i like, and the os keeps on working. makes me wonder what direction novell is going.
The os keeps on working - it just doesn't automount. We introduced subfs for KDE users and removed it again as it's no longer needed and causes a lot of problems. We had autofs since about forever and you're free to configure it to your liking. But our default is GNOME/KDE and both don't need it - and as you move away from the default, you loose convenience. But it's your choice.
So what am I getting here? There won't be a solution for non-KDE/Gnome users? Either you use Gnome/KDE and get automount, or you are on your own (concerning automount). Is this correct, or am I wrong?
I am just trying to sumerize.
houghi
Sounds more like it is set up automatically for KDE and Gnome and if you don't want to use those, then you can manually set up autofs. (do a google on "linux autofs") But I must say I agree with your earlier comment that the GUI is not the OS. The GUI is, or should be, a graphical shell that sits on top of the OS and makes it easier to use. Moving from one GUI to another should be like replacing bash with cshell or whatever, it changes the way the user interacts with the OS, but not the way the OS itself works. You could class it as an operating environment - i.e. there are a number of applications that are written for the libraries of a GUI and if the GUI, or at least its key libraries, is not installed those applications will fail, but the core OS remains the same. Even Microsoft said that when NT was released, that the Windows graphical shell would just be one of many graphical shells that would be available for the NT OS... Over time they lost direction and we ended up with the monstrosity that is Windows XP/2003 today and Vista tomorrow... One of the reasons I like Linux is that it hasn't fallen into that trap, yet. The GUI is just a set of libraries and programs that sit on the OS and make the user experience better...