Thoughts for default Hardy UI. (.deb included)

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Karoliina,

You already can do that with right clic on the drive (usb or other) and
you will see "unmount" or something like that depending on your main
language (démonter in french)

Toine



Karoliina Salminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>   
>> Its not so much the automated mounting Im worried about, its the not
>> so automated unmounting. What drives me insane is having to fuss about
>> to unmount a usb drive.
>>     
>
> I have the same problem. It is slow and clumsy to unmount the drives in Linux.
> This results that I just type sync and wait the disk to stop and
> disconnect the drive.
>
>   
>> For instance, Windows XP has that little
>> "Safely remove drive" Thing that pops up when a USB drive is present.
>>     
>
> On Mac, this is simply an eject icon that is easy to press and it does
> eject immediately without further questions.
> In my opinion, this would be maybe most convenient if such eject icon
> would be on the right
> side of the menu item on the Places-menu (assuming that the places
> menu is there, IMHO, it is one of the
> most handy things in the Gnome UI compared to other UI environments).
>
> E.g. menu items as follows in Places-menu:
> ...
> ------------------------------------
> My Usb drive               eject
>                                     icon
> ------------------------------------
> ...
>
> The eject icon would then just run sync and unmount the drive and no questions
> asked, thing just done right now. Similar things are done in the menus in the
> Hildon Desktop, there is close-icon on the right side of program name
> on the application
> switcher menu. That kind of thing would be quite brilliant on Ubuntu
> desktop too (for
> ejecting (=unmounting) USB drives).
>
> Best Regards,
> Karoliina Salminen
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