Hi James, James Westby [2008-11-10 17:22 -0500]: > Secondly, there is no notification when you just yank out a > removable device, and no real indication that you should unmount > before doing so, so it's not obvious to new users.
We already did have that in edgy to gutsy, while we were using gnome-volume-manager. It wasn't particularly robust, but it worked: http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/tmp/95_ubuntu_auto_unmount_notifications.patch > There is an open bug report about the second, > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/208730 Right, something like above patch would be necessary in nautilus. > which has no comment in the linked upstream bug. From a brief look > gio has signals that could easily implement it, but I'm not sure > that nautilus is the correct place to implement it. It is IMHO, since nautilus now does the automounting and handling of media. > The second is the more philosophical one, should we be doing this? > If so, what should it look like? Panel applet? Notification icon? > Something else? Applet is too sticky IMHO. It should just be a 30 second notification bubble, like in previous releases. My *real* preference would be to fix the kernel to make the vfat 'flush' mode actually work. This is in between 'sync' (which is flash damaging and unbearably slow) and the currently used 'async' (which has a too lax write-back policy). In short, 'flush' does write caching, but flushes more often, and blocks close() until everything is written. That means that things like copy file dialogs or programs which save documents stay around until everything is written properly, and it doesn't actually hurt (much) any more to just rip out the device. ('flush' currently only exists for vfat, though, and it's not working for me either) Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
