Just out of curiosity: How hard will it be to have a "message applet" in tray, which connected to dBus, and an backend interface which provided a bridge to this applet through dBus, providing an interface for the major programming languages - including BASH. And it should be possible to specify which user should get the warning - in case of terminal servers etc. tor, 28.10.2004 kl. 18.10 skrev David Zeuthen: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:36 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:32:01AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > > > Right now, looking at the size is the best heuristic we got, sorry. > > > > No worries. > > > > BTW, even Windows would like you to notifiy it before you yank out > > an USB device (there is an icon for that in the taskbar), so requesting > > an umount is nothing unknown in the windows world (although it is > > not called by that name) > > > > Btw, IIRC earlier versions of Windows pops up an evil model dialog box > telling the user off but I think they changed that as it annoyed users. > We don't do that right now FWIW. However, this is in no way carte > blanche for people to not unmount their devices before yanking them out > - one should always unmount your drives before doing that! The 'sync' > option is merely to minimize data loss in the event that people don't > unmount it. > > Cheers, > David
