I think I now know what the exact problem is: the device's icon disappears immediately after the user clicks "Safely remove", leading one to believe the device has immediately unmounted and can be safely removed. Obviously, the device is only *really* unmounted after all the changes have been flushed, which can take some time.
Anyway, I couldn't find any reference to this bug in the KDE's bug database. Also, I don't remember this bug being present in Dapper. Could it be a kubuntu-specific regression introduced in Edgy? -- "safely remove" isnt safe https://launchpad.net/bugs/70417 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
