Re: safely remove drive

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:

> On 10/19/2010 09:06 AM, cornel panceac wrote:
>> 2010/10/19 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>
>>       On 10/19/2010 12:49 PM, cornel panceac wrote:
>>     > wouldn't it be nice to have a "You can safely remove device" message
>>     > displayed for a few seconds every time after you click the option on
>>     > the usb drive's right-click menu?
>>     > also a message displayed al the time during the sync would complete
>>     > the user xperience. imho, of course.
>>     >
>>
>>     Flashing message isn't really necessary, as far as I'm concerned, but
>>     KDE already does something along those lines.  When you "eject" from the
>>     Device Notifier applet a green check-mark will be displayed for a few
>>     seconds afterward when the device can be removed.  It also gives an
>>     indication that the sync is going on as a series of rotating "busy" dots.
>>
>> unfortunately, in gnome it's not the caase, and it happened many times i
>> losed files because the sync was not finished yet, even after a few seconds
>> after "Safely ...".
>>
>
> You should probably file a bug for this then. Lying to the user cannot
> really be considered correct behavior.

In gnome you have to wait until icon disappears from desktop or 
nautilus. Then you can remove the device. This is pretty good 
indication...

> Regards,
>   Dennis

Adam Pribyl
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