Public bug reported:
A friend recently gave me a DVD which contained a couple of VOBs of his
band playing gigs from which he wanted me extract a couple of songs for
YouTube.
So I insert the DVD into my Linux machine, it was auto mounted, and an
icon appears on the GNOME panel with the options of "Play" and "Eject
$DVD_LABEL". Sadly neither of these options are of use as I want to
know where the DVD is mounted so I can browse it.
Additionally when I right click on the icon in the panel the menu
doesn't contain a "Properties" item which would allow me to see where
the DVD has been mounted.
I therefore have *no clue whatsoever* where the item has been mounted or
how to get to it so I can access the files it contains (in reality I
know that DVDs are mounted in "/media" so I was able to find the files
but the GNOME desktop gives me no idea where the DVD had been mounted)
I therefore propose two things.
Firstly that the menu shown against all removable media (anything that
causes an icon to be added to the panel) should always have an option
for "Explore" on it. No exceptions. When this option is selected the
item in question should be explored. If necessary the volume should
also be transparently automounted first.
Secondly it should be a standard that everything visible to the user as
an icon should have a "Properties" item available on it's right click
menu that will always give basic information about the object. i.e.
similar to the item available when you right click an item in the right
hand pane of a Nautilus Window (note this is only on the right hand
pane, again this functionality is missing from items in the left hand
Nautilus panes)
In Windows Explorer you have the option to double click an object
representing removable media which will launch the default action for
the item (for DVDs this is to play them with the default media player)
However there is always an "Explore" action available which, for users
like me, is regularly used (In fact I never double click media icons as,
even though I run with it switched off, this could also cause the items
"autoplay" rubbish to be run infecting my machine with a Sony rootkit
etc. etc.).
Again in Windows when you right click almost any icon (or list view
item) you can get a properties window which will give you basic
information about the item. Invariably the "General" tab contains the
location of the item in the file system which is invaluable.
Without this functionality GNOME is severly lacking when compared to
Windows.
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Auto mounted CD should always have an "Explore" option. Right click menu
should also have a "Properties" item.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329650
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