Please test AutoUnmountNotifications implementation

[Martin Pitt]

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

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