GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160398
Unmounted storage units shouldn't be in the FileChooser
Last modified: 2009-02-27 20:29:19 UTC
When saving stuff using the fileselector, using the quick-select bar (not Browse other folders) there are options like Home, Desktop, File System etcetera, but there are also a bunch of hardware related options. On my computer, I have: * disk-3-0 (what is this? Maybe something Fedora put there, I don't know) * Floppy Drive (when was the last time anyone used one of those? And even so, If I don't have one mounted, it shouldn't turn up) * CDROM/DVDrom Drive (Now this is reaaally strange - it's my CD/DVD READER. It can't write.) * CDRW Drive (Well, although it would theoretically be possible - but do people really save files directly to a CD burner?) I really don't think there's any room for such options, and I think the HIG would agree! They take up a lot of space, and make the time it takes finding the bookmark of choice somewhat longer. When I come to think of it - this also in a way applies to the Open dialog, but not to the same extent.
This is related to, but not the same as, Bug 137515.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137515 ***
I'd like to reopen this bug, as I just noticed that though bug 137515 is about similar things, and talks about one of my points but not all of them. Let this bug be about what is not covered by bug 137515. Namely: In any File Chooser window, there are options for Floppy, CD burner and DVD player. (This may vary depending on setup, but mine isn't that extraordinary). If I don't have any CD/DVD/Floppy mounted, and very rarely do. Yet they take up three lines of precious File Chooser space. I would like to have some kind of check on what kinds of devices are mounted, and if any of these drives aren't mounted It'd be great if they didn't show up in the File Chooser. This applies not only to the quick-select bar, but also to the bookmarks sidebar. Renaming the bug to better reflect where it is going.
What's the status on this? With multi-tool card reader this really wastes a lot of screen space! Just look at the screenshot!
Created attachment 61838 [details] Shows the problem
It looks like we have a disparity between what GtkFileSystemGnomeVFS wants to show, and what Nautilus shows in its own Places pane. Can someone please cook a patch for libgnomeui/file-chooser/gtkfilesystemgnomevfs.c? [And yes, this is not a duplicate... I must have gotten confused when I marked it as such.]
I think this can be closed now as the problem is likely to have disappeared with the big changes that have been taking place. Can you confirm? Else the bug would be in GIO now. Thanks!
Indeed this can be closed. The policy is to show these: - mounted volumes - umounted volumes which are still connected (in case you want to access them again without having to remove/insert the media again) - removable drives/volumes for which media-check can't be done automatically (e.g. floppies --- the hardware just doesn't tell us when the user inserts a floppy). The remaining part is bug #137515, about not showing read-only volumes in Save mode.