Also suffering this UI bug of sort, also on Ubuntu 12.10. On my machine, four of the eight partitions are displayed with a star.
The right-pointer triangle appears when the partition is mounted, so it's probably meant as a "media play" metaphor. The star usually means "new" (irrelevant here), or "preferred" (also irrelevant here). It's not correlated with the filesystem type of the partition. It's most probably a feature, but certainly fails most reasonable human interface guidelines. For example, Gnome guidelines about tool bars ( https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/toolbars-labels- tooltips.html.en ) mention: > Every control that appears on your toolbar should have a tooltip, whether or not that control has an associated text label. The tooltip should be a concise description of the control, but should provide more information than its text label where possible. For example, Open an existing document, or Undo last operation. About icons ( https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/icons.html.en ): > Icons are a graphical metaphor presenting a visual image that the user associates with a particular object, state or operation. When a user sees a good icon they are immediately reminded of the item it represents, whether that be an application in the panel menu or the "right aligned" state in a word processor toolbar. These star and triangle icons in gnome-disks fail at these sentences. Regards, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165437 Title: Mysterious, unlabeled icons on disk volumes Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Just one of the fourteen disk volumes on my machine is displayed with a star and a triangle in the lower-right corner (screenshot attached). These icons are unlabeled, do not have hover text, are not self- explanatory, and do not appear to respond to left or right mouse clicks. Furthermore, there is no sign of a Help menu within the Disks window or application menu. I have no idea what these icons mean. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia zfs zcommon znvpair zavl zunicode ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 6 08:46:11 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-disks InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-29 (188 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1165437/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
