Please test AutoUnmountNotifications implementation

[Xavier Claessens]

On ven, 2006-08-04 at 08:36 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi world,
> 
> Right before the Paris developer summit I discovered
> 
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoUnmountNotifications
> 
> and since this question comes up from time to time, I think it's a
> good idea and might help a little. Summary:
> 
>   "When users remove a device from their computer, such as a USB
>   stick, and the device they removed is not unmounted, the desktop
>   should pop up a warning to the user not to remove devices without
>   first unmounting them due to possible data loss and/or corruption."
>  
> I took a first shot at the implementation yesterday, and the new
> gnome-volume-manager is now in edgy. It works robustly for me, but
> since I know three different hardware-specific behaviours after a
> device is 'Eject'ed (with the icon), but not yet physically removed, I
> would like to have some more widespread tests to verify that the
> approach works.
> 
> So, if you have a free minute, can you please plug in an USB stick,
> let it automount, and when it settled, rip it out without
> unmounting/ejecting? As long as you don't write anything to the
> device, this should be safe (do a 'sync' if you are in doubt). Then
> you should see the notification bubble. OTOH you should not see it if
> you eject the device with the the 'Eject' option in the icon's context
> menu properly before removing the device physically.
> 
> Feedback appreciated (also about improving the bubble text).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 

Works for me. I think the message should despair until the user click on
the bubble, to be sure he has time to read the message.

Thanks for this work :-)

Xavier Claessens.