Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-05-01 Thread Mick
On 01/05/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip...] I would be interested in making this happen under fluxbox as well --- Particularly automounting usb key drives, as well as the flash cards from my digital camera Well you could used fbdesk if you want icons on your desktop,

RE: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-05-01 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:58 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like > > The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:47:26 -0400 JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread michael
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) > are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are > started. With those in place, it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:46:15 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I won't bother echoing everyone elses response as to how.. however, out > of curiousity I was wondering what your wife's reasoning for wanting > Gentoo on her computer is when she does not want to learn how stuff > work

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the 'plu

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 20:47 -0400, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera > > Little basic things like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread JimD
Ryan Tandy wrote: > Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) > are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are > started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). Ah, OK. I will give those a try. I hope I don't have too much recompiling

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Ryan Tandy
JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread JimD
Jorge Martín wrote: > Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some > udev rulez too.. > > On 4/29/06, *JimD* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread JimD
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:47, JimD wrote: >> Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more >> user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for >> my wife such as: >> >> Automount/play a music CD, DVD >> Automout a USB camera > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:47, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera even without hal/dbus&co KDE asks everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jorge Martín wrote: > Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make > some udev rulez too.. > > On 4/29/06, *JimD* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-29 Thread Jorge Martín
Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too..On 4/29/06, JimD < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut?  I am looking for basic home user stuff formy wife such as:Automount/play a mu