How to unmount devices? -> The decision

[Martin Pitt]

Hi again!

Yesterday's stated discussion time is up. So far we have:

| 3. Just let the user rip out the device; hal will detect this and gvm can
|    unmount it afterwards. Devices are mounted with 'sync' anyway, so this should
|    not damage VFAT devices too badly.

I guess we have to reckon with this and need to limit the damage this
can do. If gvm detects that a mounted device is removed, it should
lazily unmount it. I will care for the pumount support for this (same
option -l as unmount). Any volunteers for the gvm side?

| 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).
| 
| 6. Add a small icon to the desktop if a device is mounted. Left-click could
|    bring up a Nautilus window with the content, right-click the usual context
|    menu with the unmount option. Same error box here if device is busy.

These two seem to have general acceptance. However, according to Mark
we should aim to implement 5. Volunteers?

Since 6 should already be implemented, how long it would take to undo
the modifications for suppressing the icons? I'd like to know how long
our fallback solution will take. At release time minus this time we
should drop the efforts of implementing 5 if it does not work by this
time.

Thanks a lot and have a nice day!

Martin

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Martin Pitt                 Debian GNU/Linux Developer
martin at piware.de                      mpitt at debian.org
http://www.piware.de             http://www.debian.org
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