"Removable Drives and Media" preference tool no longer contains preferences for drives nor media

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager

Since the switch to GVFS and GIO in Nautilus, these settings have moved from gnome-volume-properties to the "Media" tab of nautilus-file-management-properties.

We're in need of a cleanup here, gnome-volume-manager as a whole is no longer is relevant to "volumes", but controls actions for basically any HAL device. As such, we should rename the preference tool to "Removable Hardware" at the very least.

Furthermore, I suggest we unhide the "File Management" preference tool, as we really need that back in the menus for dealing with removable media, now.

Ultimately, this Media tab should vanish from Nautilus's preferences and its functionality put back into g-v-m, but this is beyond our scope. I'd still make a case for it upstream, however.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 13 22:13:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64

[Kai Stempfle (kai-stempfle)]

I fully agree with Alexander, this cleanup is relevant to the 8.04 release.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Declining for hardy, changing the design is an upstream task for next cycle and changing the menu label would break translations. Unmasking the nautilus item could be an option, but those are still in a tab and it would not be obvious for users this way either

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

I would argue, in this case, that breaking the translations is simply
not a problem as ALL translations are currently 100% inaccurate.

[Omar Shami (bigfox)]

Perhaps the Media tab from the Nautilus preferences can be mirrored in the Removable Drives and Media Preferences exactly as it is preserving the translations.

I can see good reasons for it to be located in both Removable Drives and Media Preferences and Nautilus preferences as it is a function of Nautilus, however it is a Removable drives and media thing as well.