I guess Luca's wish to "unmount automatically" comes from the scary error dialog when you just rip off an USB stick after writing to it. But this would better be solved by more frequent syncing for filesystems on removable media. Then it could become obsolete to "Unmount" explicitly.
I did not fully understand your geek usecase. Doesn't sound like an out- of-the-box solution. I like Ubuntu and how all is solved in Karmic. One improvement could be to merge "Eject" and "Remove safely" (see Vishs comment in upstream bug). In my diploma thesis I developed a filesystem framework from scratch. I fear that hiding terms like Mount/Unmount means to hide the difference between filesystem and media and probably further also between media and drive. One drive = one media = one filesystem, this works for many cases and it is so easy! But it's simply wrong. As soon as these terms get merged, confusion raises: I always wondered why my Win2000-Laptop showed 2 menu entries to "Eject CD-ROM": one ejected the media, the other "removed safely" the CD drive. No chance to always guess right. Nevertheless I do agree that power users can live with or without a pre- configured right-clickable Unmount. -- "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
