Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011265
Title:
automatic mount options switch logic is backwards
Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Context was in testing and reporting bug #1011257 (reports a
functional problem with actually using this dialogue). I noticed that
when you go into "Edit Mount Options..." on a volume, the dialogue you
get has an "Automatic Mount Options" switch at the top, which defaults
to "ON".
In this state, the rest of the dialogue is greyed out.
You have to switch that switch *OFF* to be able to ungrey the rest of
the dialogue, set some options, and save them to /etc/fstab.
This seems backwards to me. :-) Surely you should be switching the
options *ON* to be able to edit and save them.
As such this is a user interface / usability issue rather than
functionality.
Maybe the problem is a misreading of the ON/OFF switch. Maybe it's
currently written so that ON means "treat entirely automatically, in
the default way" and OFF means "allow manual configuration". But the
wording is a bit ambiguous and I (with fairly good English language
skills) read it the other way: that the switch labelled "Automatic
Mount Options" means to enable the user to set options for mounting
that volume automatically, in which case the logic of the switch is
definitely reversed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.5.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 10 19:19:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-09 (1 days ago)
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