GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 551524
Volumes that are unmounted clicking the new eject icon should be greyed out
Last modified: 2010-05-28 13:31:05 UTC
Plug an USB Key : its icon is displayed within Nautilus Places panel. Then click the eject button near the USB Key icon in the panel: the USB Key remain (so its icon) and the only visible effect from a user point of view is that the eject button icon disppeared ! One may ask if the system took the action (clicking the eject button) in consideration since the USB Key icon is still there and no confirmation message or signal was displayed to the user. Nautilus should give feedback to the user. (This problem doesn't occur with a CD since the CD is physically ejected as a confirmation of the action). Other information: I've reported the same bug against Ubuntu Netbook Remix Launcher ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/240256 ) since it has a panel similar to the one that can be find in Nautilus, and a developer answered "The latest launcher will grey-out volumes that are not mounted (or volumes that become unmounted, like after eject)" which seems a good idea to give feedback to the user. Therefore maybe that volumes that are unmounted clicking the new eject icon in Nautilus panel should be greyed out
I agree that better feedback should be given, but I doubt that it helps to grey out the icon during mount. Some Ubuntu cycles ago, a popup was displayed like “The USB stick has been unmounted. You can now safely pull it out“.
*** Bug 600680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The current behaviour is that removable devices disappear from the places sidebar when they are unmounted. Closing as obsolete. There are a number of other bugs that request better visual feedback about the status of unmounted devices that you might want to have a look at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139304 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619665