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Idea
#7955: Have a device manager
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Written by ToSsMaStR the 1 May 08 at 21:33.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Have a device manager, similar to windows, where one can see what devices are functioning properly and what needs to be installed and what not.
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tgape wrote on the 1 May 08 at 23:07
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A good device manager is rather difficult to write and maintain, simply because of the sheer number of devices out there. However, many of the reasons why it is so difficult to do are also reasons why it is so desired.
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Ssdg wrote on the 2 May 08 at 00:05
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There is hal-device-manager which do that (but you have to know what you have to find, it just tells you what was detected.)
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ToSsMaStR wrote on the 2 May 08 at 11:37
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@tgape i could not hace said it better myself :-)
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Eldmannen wrote on the 2 May 08 at 15:36
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tgape,
Well Windows have it, so I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to have one too.
Also, at the beginning it does not have to be so complex, just scan the buses and list the devices.
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Lukehasnoname wrote on the 2 May 08 at 18:31
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It's funny how much we want Ubuntu to be like Windows, without Canonical being like Microsoft.
Windows has a lot of great things to it, but it just isn't Ubuntu!
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andersja wrote on the 14 May 08 at 17:57
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+1 for increasing usability for new users.
Something like the current proprietary driver tool could be a start; expanding into known devices (could someone perhaps mine the hwdb and see what people are using? In the begninngin: forget about the "long tail" of exositc stuff that only a couple of users have. If we could identify even the top 50 sound cards, webcams, printers, and other peripherals, we would probably cover a large chunk of the users...?
Even for people to see whether their device has been recognised (how many people know about lspci, lsusb etc?) will help them forward (we could show "Unknown device, vendor x, id so and so - click here to submit more information to Ubuntu's Hardware Database - this will enable us to support it in the future!
See also my idea: Do an (optional) HW test on first install
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8538/
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LostOverThere wrote on the 17 May 08 at 12:41
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You might consider taking some code from Ubuntu Tweak, which does just this. :)
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wladston wrote on the 18 May 08 at 19:37
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+1, +STAR
Please, make this one come true ... it's frustrating to plug your hardware on .... and see nothing happen ...
also frustrating not to be able to see any information about the hardware I'm running on ..
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Aleks wrote on the 24 May 08 at 00:56
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sudo apt-get install gnome-device-manager
Problem solved.
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