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Bug 307787 - Wish: Drive mount applet icon customization
Wish: Drive mount applet icon customization
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: Disk Mounter (drivemount)
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-15 14:45 UTC by John Ellis
Modified: 2007-10-16 17:34 UTC
See Also:
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Description John Ellis 2005-06-15 14:45:22 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4

The 'new and improved' drive mount applet in gnome 2.10 does not allow you to
customize the icon displayed for each device.

This makes it difficult to determine at a glance which device is which. For
example I have 5 devices: floppy, dvd-rom, dvd-rw, cd-rw, flash card reader. But
they all look exactly the same.
Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2005-06-16 02:58:30 UTC 
It now uses the icon theme, there is an existing bug on improving the icon theme.
Comment 2 Heikki Kantola 2005-07-16 07:23:28 UTC 
I feel improving the icon themes cannot really help if you have multiple devices
of same type (eg. CD/DVD drives or partitions on external hard disk), it is
still impossible determine what icon belongs to which drive/partition. And that
is certainly bad thing usabilitywise.

Another downside from not to be able to change the icons is the fact that, when
you have many devices attached (I can have ten: floppy, DVD-ROM, DVD±RW, 4 slots
in memory card reader, two external HD partitions and USB memory), the default
icons take way too much space from the panel. The thin, vertically aligned icons
in the older versions were quite nice as they didn't take too much panel space.
Comment 3 gnome 2007-10-16 17:34:06 UTC 
This bug is still alive. I'd like another option than a row of identical icons.

I don't ask for customization, just some smart choice based on the filesystem or path. And an universal mounted/unmounted status, like graying the icon.