GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668771
Don't notify of external drive during login
Last modified: 2013-03-02 13:08:18 UTC
Everytime I log in, I have to click away the notification about my external hard drive. Please don't show notifications of drives that are already attached during login.
I think this was discussed when support for removable devices was added, but I don't remember the arguments, and I can't find the relevant bug report now.
Similar issue - http://clockwerx.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/why-is-there-no-apparent-way-to-close.html It's annoying that the notification happens. It's worse that the actions presented by the notification are limited, and the notification seems to be very persistent.
Re lack of timeout / persistent behaviour, Bug #665761 is vaguely similar.
I'm pretty sure that we had a different bug for this and that it got fixed. Please let us know if the bug is still occuring in GNOME 3.6.x (or, even better, 3.7.x).