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Idea #19905: Windows of ejected or umounted disks should close automatically

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #14754: Close nautilus window when resource is no longer available.
Written by Living-FOSS-iL the 19 May 09 at 07:45. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
Rationale
Having a window pop up when I insert a CDROM or Flash Disk is a nice feature. However in the case especially of CDROMs, which can be safely ejected without unmounting the disk, this can lead to a profusion of windows.

My idea is that windows that pop up as a result of media being inserted should also have the good sense to pop "out". If I eject a CDROM, its window should close automatically.

This can also be useful for Flash Disks which need to be unmounted first since there are different ways of unmounting such disks, one by issuing a command like "eject /media/Disk/", right clicking on its mounted icon, or right-clicking on its icon on the Nautilus sidebar.

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Solution #1: Ejecting or umounting disks should trigger a corresponding close window event
Written by Living-FOSS-iL the 19 May 09 at 07:45.
Nautilus is already aware of disks that are unmounted or ejected. Why not extended its range of actions to closing the window of the unavailable disk.
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Solution #2: Close "tab" instead.
Written by Ssdg the 19 May 09 at 15:46.
If you use tabs to browse your media, if the window closes, you loose all tabs. so juste close one tab and if it's the last one close the window.

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Solution #3: Solution #3: Visually or sonically signify disk removal
Written by mitkaese the 22 May 09 at 00:58.
I'm not sure auto-closing windows on the user is the best idea. I can imagine times when when the user needs to know what was just removed, e.g. to compare with those on another drive.

It seems a much more robust solution to visually/sonically signify that the drive is no longer mounted, perhaps by graying out the window or adding an "[Ejected]" to the title bar.

Additionally, the Ubuntu's system notification could let the user know the drive has been removed and *ask* if the correspondent windows should be closed.
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Solution #4: Corollary to #4
Written by Clorox the 23 May 09 at 01:25.
#4 is a great idea, but if the user is asked whether the window should be closed, then there should be a "do not ask again" option.
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Solution #5: Use the new notification system to report
Written by LiraNuna the 23 May 09 at 06:56.
Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) have a new marvelous notification system. Use it to report that the media is now safe to remove.
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Solution #6: Change the location of the window/tab
Written by Kver the 25 May 09 at 00:40.
Instead of closing the tab, move the current location to either the /media folder, or the parent folder of the mount point.

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Akerbos wrote on the 19 May 09 at 19:39
Do not name it "Eject" on USB connected devices. I always wonder what my machine would do with my stick if I ever clicked "Eject" ;)

tux4ever wrote on the 20 May 09 at 12:34
Good solutions but the final user must have the choice to activate this "close" function or not.

OpenNingia wrote on the 20 May 09 at 13:11
@tux4ever

There will never be such option bloating in gnome nor in ubuntu.

Your suggestion is something that is likely to be implemented on KDE.


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