Public bug reported:
usb flash memory-stics have become very popular,
when in a rush smb wants to write data into flash and runaway, they might
forget, that they haven't disconnected the flash... - so they'll unfortunately
get corrupted data... and get annoyed/frustrated (especially if they used win
before, as win tend to synchronize at once - and no problem as far as I know..)
(especcialy, if the desktop is covered wiht some programs, it is easy to forget)
two possible sollution proposals:
1) make usb-flash-disc status icon in the panel (simillary as there is
BlueTooth or LAN icons in gnome-panel)
and it should be easy to rightclick and choose to disconnect/synchronize
2) try to synchronize copied data at once (especially larger files)
I know there's issue with flash-FAT or so, as frequent writes wear it out..,
but in many cases users just copy some files and that's all
may be some logging and heuristics could be used to determine:
if the data is written once
or wether the user works with data from usb
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: baltix
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: baltix
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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feature request: usb flash disk status should be well seen (panel icon or so)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163421
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