The vast majority of users don't want to know about mounting or unmounting; they don't even like knowing that they're supposed to "safely remove" in Windows - it makes them uncomfortable or guilty when they accidentally pull the thing out, which is what they really should be able to do.
Really, why should users have to know and understand the difference between a filesystem and a media and so on. Should users have to know the details of how cars work to use them? Certainly not - it would be nice in a world where everyone could, but it's not worth the time for everyone to learn it. The best option is to arrange things so that filesystems on removable media are automounted as read only, although programs don't know this - they are presented with a read/write FUSE. When a program writes to the FUSE, the filesystem on the media is mounted read/write, then written to, then mounted back as read only. The right click option should normally be "Mount filesystem" until the user mounts it explicitly, then it's "Unmount filesystem". This allows the power users to speed up writes by mounting it if they need; it also reinforces that it must later be unmounted. I know it's a lot of work, but this is the correct way to do it. On 06/18/2009 03:46 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote: > I propose that we at least rename "Unmount" to "Disconnect" > > ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts > Status: Confirmed => Triaged > -- "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
