GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 339150
emblems from the sidebar are updated when clicked, should be set right at startup
Last modified: 2012-07-20 12:03:34 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/35411 "... They are all existent in /media, so nautilus recognizes them as disks in the tree. Now, when I display the tree the icons of the disks are of the standard "disk" type. However, when I click on them it turns to a yellow lock. ..."
I can confirm this bug, as I was just about to log it myself. Note that this is a problem in the "Tree view" in Nautilus as padlocks do not seem to be used in the "places" view, which I imagine would be a separate issue which may be by design, although I have not worked out why yet. The link to the bug in ubuntu only mentions SMB filesystems, but I have also noticed the same inconsistent behaviour with local filesystems (such as NTFS windows partitions) that are mounted at startup. I agree that the padlock icon is very useful, but as this bug suggests, I would also prefer to see it in the tree view of Nautilus on startup rather than after I clicked on it.
This bug should no longer be present with the latest Nautilus redesign.