It's probably a little late to chime in but I only noticed this discussion after I saw the "bug" that my CD-ROM drive no longer shows up in computer:/// (or the mount applet, of the places sidebar, or anywhere else) unless there's media in it.
I don't agree at all with the direction this is going. I don't see what damage it does to the user experience to have unmounted media in the places sidebar. On the contrary I find it disturbing to plug in my media-card reader and have nothing at all happen. I have come to expect to see all the drives that I have permission to mount enumerated in computer:/// (an more importantly for me in the mount applet). Perhaps it's just a matter of comfort but I imagine that many other users feel similarly. The former behavior was consistent with Windows Explorer. We don't want to blindly follow whatever M$ does but we do want to give users an experience that they will understand. Bernat said: > Why is there a need to show unmounted > volumes, anyway? The first thing a new > user will do is click on the unmounted > volume and get a cryptic "Unable to > mount the selected volume" error > message and think there is something > wrong. Windows does the same thing except that it gives an error message that the user can understand. That an error message will be displayed is consistent with experience. The message needs to be more intelligent, however, and let the user know why it was unable to mount the volume rather than simply that it could not. -- not mounted devices lists by nautilus places sidebar https://launchpad.net/bugs/41740 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
