On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > > Squeeze, at least not for me. > > I've got it on an up-to-date installation of squeeze/Gnome, kernel 2.6.32-3 . > > Check Preferences > Main Menu and insure it is checked. > > > > > Googling indicates this is a known issue, > > Specifics?
Question on help sites dating back to 2008 with no answers. "What happened to Removable Devices... " sort of thing. The problem was that there was nothing specific, only questions on the topic. > > > but seems to be ignored as > > being somehow uninteresting to GUI users, or something. I can't find > > anything that is Debian specific on this. > > > > There is a lot of competition for "interesting" in testing. It is, after > all, a release still under development. The assurances are in stable. > > > Help, please. > > I'd rather just confer. Fine. Talking to a trouble person can be a great help. > > Do you even need it? Do these things not show up in Nautilus? I don't know Nautilus. What does it do? Maybe that is the answer. I'll look. I have trouble with non-descriptive names. But OK. Here I go. ... > > # aptitude install gnome-volume-manager This was mentioned in perhaps half the questions as perhaps being where the fault lay. Food for thought. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100326224659.gg20...@big.lan.gnu
