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Bug 137304 - Discs menu gone from desktop context menu
Discs menu gone from desktop context menu
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 135591 138388 165596 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-15 22:48 UTC by Carlos Morgado
Modified: 2005-06-22 20:41 UTC
See Also:
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Description Carlos Morgado 2004-03-15 22:48:59 UTC 
I can't mount discs from nautilus desktop menu anymore. On nautilus 2.4
mounting any disc is 2 clicks away, on 2.5 is burried I don't know where.

nautilus-2.5.90-1 Fedora development
Comment 1 Kevin Duffus 2004-03-17 16:34:37 UTC 
You can access your disks from the computer icon on the desktop or 
navigating to computer:// using the location bar/window.
Comment 2 Carlos Morgado 2004-03-17 17:55:32 UTC 
That's still 1 more click, what's the rationale for removing it from
the desktop menu ?
Comment 3 Martin Wehner 2004-03-29 13:53:38 UTC 
*** Bug 138388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Martin Wehner 2004-03-29 13:57:36 UTC 
Egle wrote:

The item 'Disks' disappeared from right click menu on version 2.6. 

It has to be brought back because of:
1. Users (especially advanced ones) got used to access the disks by right click;
2. Right click access is quicker;
3. More comfortable for part of users;
4. The compatibility with old versions is very important for both simple and
advanced users. 

Sure, it is very good that more user friendly way to access disks appeared, but
I do believe that the old one has to stay possible, too.
Comment 5 Martin Wehner 2004-04-01 05:05:48 UTC 
*** Bug 135591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Martin Wehner 2004-04-01 05:07:32 UTC 
Ron wrote:

the submenu "Discs" used to be in the popup menu
when rightclicked on the desktop. The
functionality has been moved to "My Computer".

I would prefer to be able to switch of "My
Computer" and have the option back in the popup menu

Pat wrote:

This would be really cool to have indeed, at least until the
gnome-volume-manager becomes standard...
Comment 7 Pat Suwalski 2004-04-03 00:26:19 UTC 
It also appears that the icons that showed up on the desktop when a drive was
mounted have disappeared. Is this intentional? I really found those even more
important than the menu mounting items.
Comment 8 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2004-04-03 00:31:20 UTC 
People really frustrated with this disappearance. Pretty please - put it back.
GNOME is not in the position yet to hide the good old unix mount/umount
semantics. Not yet:)
Comment 9 Richard Hoelscher 2005-01-30 05:42:37 UTC 
*** Bug 165596 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Carsten Allefeld 2005-01-30 09:45:35 UTC 
Perhaps an even better alternative would be a panel button which shows the menu 
of mountables when clicked.
Comment 11 Luis Villa 2005-01-31 02:32:52 UTC 
Carsten: applets 2.10 (2.8 as well maybe?) does have such a disk mounter applet.
Comment 12 Martin Wehner 2005-06-22 20:41:59 UTC 
People, use the disc mounter applet - it's faster to use and neater than the
context menu ever was. Whether volumes are shown on the desktop depends on the
apps->nautilus->desktop->volumes_visible gconf key btw.