Desktop usability: how to unmount devices?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Can we get this right for Warty? Would be wonderful, but time is very, 
very tight.

>5. Add a small icon to the panel if a device is mounted. Clicking would attempt
>   to unmount and pop up an error box if it fails (perhaps with the
>   applications that still use the device).
>   + panel is visible every time
>   + safe and consistent
>   - small icons are likely to be overseen (but you get used to it, I guess)
>  
>
This one I like best. It should be a small notification icon, clicking 
it creates a menu of all the possible unmounts.... select the one to 
unmount and voila. If that means no devices are then mounted, the 
notification icon disappears. Could be a GVM notification icon, if GVM 
is running in the background anyway and knows what it mounted in the past.

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