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Bug 139304 - Visual indicator showing if devices are mounted or not
Visual indicator showing if devices are mounted or not
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.11.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-07 00:36 UTC by paul hendrick
Modified: 2012-08-14 00:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description paul hendrick 2004-04-07 00:36:39 UTC 
Description of Problem:
when i look in the Computer folder on my dekstop,
it shows me any devices i have, which is cool. it
doesnt give me any visual indication on whether
they're mounted or not(or even if there's even
media in them). 
for example, my cdrw shows up, but the icon looks
no differnt whether i have it empty, with a cd in
it, or with a cd & mounted.

it'd be nice if the icon for an unused device was 
greyed out or had an emblem showing it's state.
Comment 1 Alan Horkan 2004-11-04 14:44:06 UTC 
You might consider rephrasing the summary of this bug report as it might help
draw developer attention if it was clearer.  

based on what you wrote 

> it'd be nice if the icon for an unused device was 
greyed out or had an emblem showing it's state.

I would suggest something more like
"need visual indicator to show if devices are mounted or not"
Comment 2 Matthew Gatto 2004-11-06 05:56:43 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. Please don't set milestones, they're for the
maintainers (ideally bugzilla would make these fields read-only to people
without the appropriate privileges).
Comment 3 Alexander Brausewetter 2005-05-14 00:07:17 UTC 
Should be reassigned to GNOME-VFS which provides the computer:// view.
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2005-07-11 11:42:08 UTC 
I disagree with you here Alex. The Desktop emblem is also handled by Nautilus.
IMHO there should really be a mounted eblem which we can then use to display the
drive state. I've filed bug 310011 against gnome-icon-theme for that.
Comment 5 Allan Day 2010-05-27 10:50:05 UTC 
This bug affects the sidebar and tree as well as computer:///. I've renamed the bug accordingly.

I think there is a case for having a standardised way of indicating when a drive is unmounted. Maybe I'm wrong though. It would be good to get some design input here.
Comment 6 Allan Day 2010-07-09 07:27:06 UTC 
It still isn't clear why this is necessary. Why does a user need to know whether a drive is mounted or not?
Comment 7 Allan Day 2010-07-09 07:29:17 UTC 
Bug 310011 is relevant, btw. There's a suggestion there that an eject button could be used for all mounted drives. That makes sense to me, and would seem to fix this bug.
Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 00:48:26 UTC 
The eject button is always used for mounted devices in the sidebar. I think this bug is fixed.