Hi, On Nov 21, 2007 6:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karoliina, > > You already can do that with right clic on the drive (usb or other) and > you will see "unmount" or something like that depending on your main > language (démonter in french)
I know, that I can do this in Nautilus. However, I would like to do that on places-menu. Right-clicking in Nautilus is unintuitive. Best Wishes, Karoliina > > Toine > > > > Karoliina Salminen a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > >> Its not so much the automated mounting Im worried about, its the not > >> so automated unmounting. What drives me insane is having to fuss about > >> to unmount a usb drive. > >> > > > > I have the same problem. It is slow and clumsy to unmount the drives in > > Linux. > > This results that I just type sync and wait the disk to stop and > > disconnect the drive. > > > > > >> For instance, Windows XP has that little > >> "Safely remove drive" Thing that pops up when a USB drive is present. > >> > > > > On Mac, this is simply an eject icon that is easy to press and it does > > eject immediately without further questions. > > In my opinion, this would be maybe most convenient if such eject icon > > would be on the right > > side of the menu item on the Places-menu (assuming that the places > > menu is there, IMHO, it is one of the > > most handy things in the Gnome UI compared to other UI environments). > > > > E.g. menu items as follows in Places-menu: > > ... > > ------------------------------------ > > My Usb drive eject > > icon > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > > > > The eject icon would then just run sync and unmount the drive and no > > questions > > asked, thing just done right now. Similar things are done in the menus in > > the > > Hildon Desktop, there is close-icon on the right side of program name > > on the application > > switcher menu. That kind of thing would be quite brilliant on Ubuntu > > desktop too (for > > ejecting (=unmounting) USB drives). > > > > Best Regards, > > Karoliina Salminen > > --- > > http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
