nautilus context menu for devices

[Wolf Rogner]

When mounting an external device, Nautilus 3.10.1 would provide a context menu on that device where the last entry would be

"Properties"

(Above: Safely Remove | Remove)

So, to figure out the remaining disk space, one could easily draw down to the last entry and get the drive properties.

In 3.14.2 this behaviour changed significantly (and to my understanding, dangerously):

The last entry in the context menu now is:

Format ...

(Above being the Properties and above that the remove item).

A careless slip of hand and one is just one step away from loosing data.

While having the format menu item there might be arguable, I strongly recommend changing the position to higher up.

Reasoning: It takes less concentration to find the fist and last menu item than it does to select one in the middle (one has to search for it). In revers, this implies that the last menu item is a "learned behaviour".

I would consider this a security risk (thus the marking at the end) and would appreciate the developers follow my argument and change this.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 25 15:38:25 2015
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_accessed']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-17 (707 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64+mac (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-25 (0 days ago)

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

Well if loosing data coincidentally is not a security issue, I can live with it. It should be changed urgently though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

note that the item opens a dialog and doesn't trigger the action directly so you are not likely to loose datas

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

You've never had to deal with my users ;-) (hope they don't read this, one of them being my spouse)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing, that should be discussed upstream if you stillc are about it but since the action is non destructive/trigger a confirmation dialog it doesn't seem an important issue