Comment 6 for bug 1067876
Revision history for this message
| Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote Re: Missing "Safely Remove Drive" Option from Context-Menu | #6 |
© 2004
Canonical Ltd.
•
Terms of use
•
Data privacy
•
Contact Launchpad Support
•
Blog
•
Careers
•
System status
•
0f7b58d
(Get the code!)
To be fair, when you do select "unmount", if you right-click on the device-icon again, the "unmount" option will no longer be selectable. Perhaps this is a more subtle indicator that the drive has been successfully unmounted, but it does take an additional step to confirm (versus the behavior in 12.04). 12.04's behavior was more apparently without that additional step.
One plus, about this new behavior, is that if you want to mount the device again, the device icon remains on the taskbar, and it auto-mounts it upon clicking it. This prevents you from having to unplug and replug the device to get the icon to re-appear on the task bar.
Perhaps a great compromise would be to indeed bring back the "Safely Remove" option (because to a new user that makes more sense than the technical term "unmount". And, once removed, allow the icon to remain on the task bar, but modify the icon so that it indicates an "unmounted" status (with a red x or something else more elegant).