On 2010/02/20 13:08 (GMT+0100) Anders Johansson composed:
On Friday 19 February 2010 12:11:31 Charles Obler wrote:
USB Memory: * In 10.2, I can access my USB memory with mc, simply by going to the /media directory. In 11.2, my USB memory is inaccessible, except through Dolphin. Using Dolphin to copy from one directory to another takes me five times as long as using mc.
Five times longer? I find this difficult to believe
Anyway, in 10.2 there was a system wide automount. This was later removed in favour of a hal-based approach which requires support from the desktop you're logged in to. You can bypass this by mounting the device manually, or simply using the device notifier in kde to mount it and then using mc for everything else
But if it really takes you five times longer, you're doing something wrong
Have you considered that one using mc might be using it in a virtual console? When that's the case, it's necessary to first switch to X to discover any device notifier waiting on a response, then switch back to return to the task at hand. Discovering auto mounting has not occurred and manual mounting, and/or switching to X, grabbing a rodent, and switching back from X, can take longer than actually performing the desired task in mc, possibly 5 times longer. I've been using virtually nothing but OFMs for file management tasks for well over a decade. About the only thing I ever use a GUI file manager for is copying an OFM from some remote location in order to install it Windows. I can easily imagine taking many times longer using some never before seen GUI file manager than using a familiar OFM. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org