GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310051
drives should not appear in the file chooser bookmarks unless mounted
Last modified: 2007-10-12 03:24:36 UTC
I have two CD-ROM drives in my computer. When I have no CD in the drive (and the drive is not mounted), they do not appear on the desktop, or in the nautilus "places" side pane, or in the panel "places" menu. However, they do appear among the bookmarks in the file chooser dialog. They should only appear in this list if and when they get mounted (either automatically or manually), to be consistent with the rest of the desktop (and also because it makes sense :-))
But if they don't appear in the file chooser when they are unmounted... 1. you open the file chooser 2. you insert a CD 3. how do you access it from the file chooser? The idea is that like in MacOS, you double-click on the volume in the file chooser to try to mount it.
Actually, in MacOS, when you insert a CD, it appears automagically in the file chooser... and when you eject it, it disappears from the file chooser. You don't have to mount anything. That's what happens in nautilus as well right now.
I just tested it, and that's the way it works on MacOS (automatic mounting)
Yes, this is possible for some things where we can reliably automount. That is not possible for some types os pc hardware though, so disabling this is probably a bad idea. Nautilus only shows the drives in computer, not in the other places though. However, i think it makes some sense to show them in the file selector, since you might not want to switch away from the file selector to nautilus when you want to load/save a file.
I have a patch for Nautilus in openSUSE which does exactly this for the desktop icons for volumes/drives. The file chooser should have the same behavior.
We do this now in the file chooser.