FreeBSD and hardware??

[michael]

Bob McConnell wrote:
> On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
>   
>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
>>     
>>> On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
>>>
>>> On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before
>>>       
> they
>   
>>> can match Microsoft's ease of use on the GUI. I believe the best way
>>> to attack that problem is to find a new paradigm to replace the
>>>       
> desktop,
>   
>>> which is not a great interface model to begin with.
>>>       
>> I guess that depends on your definition of "ease of use".  In my
>>     
> little
>   
>> world, "ease of use" involves the ease, efficiency, and speed of task
>> completion via an interface with which I'm familiar.  It seems from
>>     
> what
>   
>> you said that in your little world "ease of use" means "familiarity",
>> since that's really the major win for MS Windows interfaces, to the
>> majority of its users.
>>     
>
> Here are two simple tests for ease of use.
>
> 1. View a tree of files and directories, some local some remote mounts.
> Highlight a random group of those objects. Move the entire group in one
> motion by dragging and dropping the collection to a new location in the
> tree.
>
> 2. Do an SMB mount of remote directories onto the desktop or your home
> directory. Open any application and access files in that directory as
> easily as when they are on the local drive.
>
> I have not been able to do either of these on Ubuntu 7.10 or
> XFCE/Slackware 12. In the first case, I need to cut and paste the
> individual files one at a time. I can't even move a directory. In the
> second, I have been unable to get Amarok, vlc, xine or any other
> multimedia application I have tried, to recognize the SMB mounted
> directory. It is invisible to them. At the application level there
> should be absolutely no difference between a local drive and a mounted
> remote drive, no matter what protocol was used to mount it. The
> application should not need to implement smb:// itself.
>
> I am not even going to talk about how difficult it is to find and modify
> basic configuration files, particularly after the LSB crowd really
> screwed everything up.
>
> Once you fix basic problems like these, then we can talk about how to
> redefine ease of use.
>
> Bob McConnell
>   
also, my vlc sees any mounted drive or directory, no matter the 
protocol. so does mplayer, etc. i don't know why your system doesn't 
operate correctly, but i don't have that issue at all.
e,g:
/mnt/Azureus Downloads
this mount is mounted over samba from a computer on the other side of 
the house, and i see everything on it and play my files over the network.
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