[Bug 41458] Re: No DVD icon in Places >> Computer and Desktop when mounted

[MartinE]

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Feisty Fawn.
Some observations:

(1) When the DVD drive is empty and the lid is closed, a DVD icon is
shown in "Computer". This is expected behaviour. But there's no way to
open the lid from "Computer": Right clicking on "DVD drive" and
selecting "eject" yields a dialog box that tells me "Unable to mount
media. There is probably no media in the drive". Sure there isn't. But I
didn't want to mount the drive, i wanted to open the lid. "eject
/dev/hdc" works. So does hardware eject.

(2) When I insert a movie DVD and close the lid, the DVD is automatically played with Totem. Again, this is expected bahaviour. However, the DVD icon in "Computer" disappears.
Moreover, hardware eject does no longer work, presumably because there is a mounted DVD in the drive. So, no other way to reopen the lid but "eject /dev/hdc".

(3) In case 2, when I double click on the CD-RW drive icon in "Computer"
(my CD-RW drive is different from my DVD drive), the DVD drive icon
reappears. However, both the "eject" and "mount" options in the DVD
icons's context menu yield the same dialog box mentioned above: "Unable
to mount media. There is probably no media in the drive". Heck, sure
there's a media in the drive, Totem is currently playing it (however,
exiting Totem before trying this doesn't change anything). But again, I
didn't want to mount it, I wanted to eject it. Hardware eject still
doesn't work, like in case 2. So, I'm still stuck with "eject /dev/hdc"
to reopen the lid.

(4) In each case, there is no DVD icon on the desktop. This is expected
in case 1, and partly so in case 2, because there is no icon in
"Computer" either (but there should be, both in "Computer" and on the
desktop). But even in case 3, after double clicking on the CD-RW icon,
when the DVD icon reappeared in "Computer", there is still no DVD icon
on my Desktop.


It seems that nautilus' behaviour concerning when to show a DVD icon in "Computer", or on the desktop, and its behaviour concerning the "eject" option of the DVD icon's context menu (when it is shown at all), are utterly broken on my machine.

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No DVD icon in Places >> Computer and Desktop when mounted
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41458