My point of view is that in my daily 'objects' experiences I never see something close to 'mount' and 'unmount' verbs. I can see objects named like: eject, remove, detach, attach, plug, unplug, switch off, plug in and so on as you can test on your real life and the life of your direct environment in term of parents and friends.
The first and unique place where I can use the terms mount and unmount is the UNIX flavors world... I don't think that Ubuntu and GNOME environments main targets is the UNIX ultra-tech world. What I can see is that Ubuntu and GNOME targets smart peoples (based on what I see about how they try to interact with humans) that does not wants to think how their tools should works but that tools should immediately solve their easy tasks (read mails, interact with the web, move mp3 from an USB disk to the PC disk, upload pictures online...and so on). 1) when I want my DVD back I just for historical reason: eject the disk from the bay so I expect that when there is an optical device GNOME use the verb 'eject' and not unmount or something else. 2) when I want to detach an USB key from the PC I expect that GNOME does not use the verbs unmount or eject but something closed to: detach, switch off, safely detach from PC ...and so on 3) when I power off a 250 GB USB I expect that this simply disappear from the list...no power...no party! 4) there's no reason to maintain mounted all the times with the risk of inconsistency.The problem must be solved in realtime. GNOME (but I expect this features direct into the kernel user-space) should build and infrastructure that takes into account usage statistics in term of read write disk so it should unmount if the disk is unused and auto mount when some read or write request is pending from the system (I image it as only a generic users and desktop solution), it requires only a fraction of second to analyze that something/someone requests to access the disk and to mount...as you can measure humans has a very good tolerance against 'less than a second' delays.So why not? When I have the OS that's protect me against accidental detach of a USB disk device I don't need anymore any command on Nautilus to do something that the computer should understand itself (rules number one: the machine IS my slave and should serve and resolve all my problem). bye, Luca Cappelletti -- "Unmount" in volume right-click menu, is tech-speak and undiscoverable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/28835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
