The contextual menu for devices has an extra separator if the volume is not mounted

[Olivier Tilloy]

Binary package hint: unity

The contextual menu for removable devices displayed in the launcher doesn’t have an eject action if the volume has not been auto-mounted (which happens if nautilus is not launched when the session is started), but it still has a separator below its title (the name of the volume), and this looks wrong. See attached screenshot.

I can think of two possible solutions to fix this issue:
 1) Do not display the separator if there is no action below the title (i.e. if the volume is not mounted)
 2) Always display an 'eject' action, and make it eject the volume if possible (Volume.can_eject()), as opposed to unmounting it if mounted. That would keep the contextual menu consistent in all cases.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.46-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 17 17:22:28 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100926)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note: to reproduce, one should make sure that nautilus is not launched when the session is started by removing 'filemanager' from the GConf key /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Though the mechanisms are not fully ported over to the new Natty version, it's worth keeping this issue in mind as we revisit the Quicklists for Natty.

[Ugo Riboni (uriboni)]

The changes in 0.2.46-0ubuntu4common0light12 fix this bug as well, by not showing the bottom separator if there are no items below it.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Fixed in the OEM project, closing the Unity bugs.