Comment 309 for bug 441835

The issue is that floppy disks are no longer auto-mounted on the GNOME
desktop. Floppy disks can easily be mounted at the command line, so what's
lost is a convenience, and one that matters most to novice users.
Contemporary personal computers rarely have floppy drives installed; it has
been many years since floppy disk drives were a standard feature. It seems
to me that it is unlikely for someone who needs access to floppy disks to be
a novice computer user and unwilling to use a command line interface.

Given the resources available to Ubuntu developers, and the priorities of
the Ubuntu distribution, I think that it's reasonable for the developers to
leave this as it is.