Comment 25 for bug 28835

bah to the CLI ... my parents have ubuntu on there eee 701 there is now way the want to know what unmount means to remove a usb key drive...

That said 'Im sure we can do better than windows because that isnt good ethier... neither is the mac drag to trash can

I think what we really need is a "hardware manager" notification area/applet if you will...

It should only contain things that relate to physical hardware.. CD / usb drive, screen brightness, volume control, blue tooth, network connection.

Looking at my notification area right now that would leave me with only 3 icons.. tomboy, skype and dropbox instead of the 6 icons and an applet(brightness) I currently have

Having hardware control in the "notification" area is a bit crazy to start with.. but I guess it was the simple route