Nautilus should not be the place to set media policies

[Henry Gomersall]

With the introduction of Hardy, the dialogue for setting the policy for handling the insertion of different media (CD, DVD, Photo flash cards etc) has been moved from the "Removable drives and media" capplet to the Nautilus preferences.

Nautilus preferences should have information *only* regarding the nautilus window. Setting system level policies here is a really bad usability move. Users neither need to know nor should they care that nautilus is the program actually handling the HAL events (if indeed it is). The file manager is not the natural place to look for this option. Not least because YOU NEED THE FILE MANAGER OPEN in order to find it. From the users perspective, the file manager is not always open, and hence system level settings should be kept well away from it.

This is a serious usability regression. If it is an upstream issue, then a bug report should be filed (which I am happy to do). Despite the fact that Nautilus has this option, it is sufficiently non-discoverable that an alternative move would be to still include the old "Removable drives and media" capplet and duplicate the options (a crap solution, but arguably better than the current situation). The natural place to put options regarding removable drives and media is the "REMOVABLE DRIVES AND MEDIA" capplet. If there is a desire to remove this capplet, then do it all or don't do it at all.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, send it upstream if you want to, instructions on how to do it can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME , leaving as incomplete until that. thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue has already been mentioned on other bugs and should rather be discussed on a list or upstream, not a lot people are going to read the bug tracker to participate to the discussion and the work should not be distribution specific