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Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: unity
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1360102
Title:
Unity device blacklist nonfunctional
Status in Unity:
Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Installing 14.04 in a classroom dual-boot environment, Unity shows
icons for the Windows partitions on the launcher, nonfunctional since
they require root to mount. Such extraneous icons only serve to
confuse the user.
Googling, I found out about the com.canonical.Unity.Devices blacklist
gsettings entry. I made a script that generates a schema such as this,
for internal drives:
[com.canonical.Unity.Devices]
blacklist=['F236BFEF36BFB349','1A98C11998C0F473','c251a534-47dd-4ecb-a62c-2ced6914ef4a','122357ec-3130-482f-b20e-a4c6522e0873']
Here's the corresponding output of blkid -o list
device fs_type label mount point UUID
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1 ntfs System (not mounted) F236BFEF36BFB349
/dev/sda2 ntfs OSDisk (not mounted) 1A98C11998C0F473
/dev/sda3 swap <swap>
c251a534-47dd-4ecb-a62c-2ced6914ef4a
/dev/sda4 ext4 /
122357ec-3130-482f-b20e-a4c6522e0873
I put the file in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas and ran glib-compile-
schemas on it. The entry _does_ show up in a user's session as
evidenced by gsettings get and dconf-editor. dconf-editor also has a
documentation line for the entry that indicates that this _should_
indeed prevent the named drives from appearing.
However, the icons persist in appearing, even on a clean home
directory (no old user configuration to confuse anything).
Can this be fixed, or is there another way to prevent Unity from
showing local internal drives to users who have no means of accessing
them? Disabling drive icons altogether would be suboptimal but perhaps
workable too, though it'd be preferable that the removable drives
would get icons. However, even removing unity://devices from
com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites didn't prevent the icons from
appearing (though the same edit did succeed in removing other
application icons, so the setting itself went through properly).
lsb_release -rd is:
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
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