This should really be fixed. I've lost data because I expected the same progress dialog to appear as when unmounting from the desktop.
In my opinion should be upped in priority! -- Unmount progress dialog doesn't show when unmounting via the side panel https://launchpad.net/bugs/48380 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs