GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310011
Reflect mount state in icon theme
Last modified: 2012-10-11 14:21:24 UTC
It would be nice to have emblems which denote the mount state of a drive. For now, an emblem showing that a volume is mounted should be enough. Note that it has to be general enough to be used for all kinds of remote locations (FTP servers, etc.) and Floppy disks, which might not be doable. Alternatively, we could have special icons for remote locations which denote that for instance an FTP server, SMB share or floppy disk is mounted, just like we have them for CD drives.
It would be more sane to have an Eject emblem overlaid for mounted devices. This should probably be implemeted differently from the current emblem system as the position should remain, say top left, no matter how many emblems are attached. Attached is a proposed eject emblem.
> This should probably be implemeted differently from the current emblem system as the position should remain, say top left, no matter how many emblems are attached. Good point. You forgot to attach it btw :).
Created attachment 50727 [details] Eject Emblem SVG
I think we have a solution for this with the advent of the naming spec, and splitting the drive/media icons up. Mounted media should use the media icon, and unmounted drives should use the drive icons. This is only really an issue if you have multiple volumes on a drive that you mount/unmount frequently, but I don't see that as being a use case we should target so much. Should we just close this bug as invalid or something?
christian, jakub: comments to dobey's last comment?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
The issue with the current approach is that different drives are treated in different ways. In Nautilus, if you unmount a removable drive, it disappears from the places sidebar and from computer:///. The same isn't true for non-removable drives though. That's bad in usability terms. It would be preferable to have a standard approach, IMO. There's also no visual indication that selecting an unmounted drive in Nautilus will mount it. Thoughts?
Please ignore my last comment. I was out of my mind that day.
I think this one is obsolete now, closing, feel free to reopen if I'm wrong.