I do it on the desktop, like on macosX...

Toine

Karoliina Salminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 6:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Karoliina,
>>
>> You already can do that with right clic on the drive (usb or other) and
>> you will see "unmount" or something like that depending on your main
>> language (démonter in french)
>>     
>
> I know, that I can do this in Nautilus. However, I would like to do
> that on places-menu.
> Right-clicking in Nautilus is unintuitive.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Karoliina
>
>   
>> Toine
>>
>>
>>
>> Karoliina Salminen a écrit :
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Its not so much the automated mounting Im worried about, its the not
>>>> so automated unmounting. What drives me insane is having to fuss about
>>>> to unmount a usb drive.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I have the same problem. It is slow and clumsy to unmount the drives in 
>>> Linux.
>>> This results that I just type sync and wait the disk to stop and
>>> disconnect the drive.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> For instance, Windows XP has that little
>>>> "Safely remove drive" Thing that pops up when a USB drive is present.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> On Mac, this is simply an eject icon that is easy to press and it does
>>> eject immediately without further questions.
>>> In my opinion, this would be maybe most convenient if such eject icon
>>> would be on the right
>>> side of the menu item on the Places-menu (assuming that the places
>>> menu is there, IMHO, it is one of the
>>> most handy things in the Gnome UI compared to other UI environments).
>>>
>>> E.g. menu items as follows in Places-menu:
>>> ...
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> My Usb drive               eject
>>>                                     icon
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> ...
>>>
>>> The eject icon would then just run sync and unmount the drive and no 
>>> questions
>>> asked, thing just done right now. Similar things are done in the menus in 
>>> the
>>> Hildon Desktop, there is close-icon on the right side of program name
>>> on the application
>>> switcher menu. That kind of thing would be quite brilliant on Ubuntu
>>> desktop too (for
>>> ejecting (=unmounting) USB drives).
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Karoliina Salminen
>>> ---
>>> http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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