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Idea #8789: Improve the Disk Mounter Applet

Written by jorsol the 19 May 08 at 03:26. Category: Accessibility. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
The actual disk mounter applet lacks for certain features that make it more configurable and easy to use it.

It's more easy and fast to go directly to the icon in the gnome-panel and remove a device, than to the desktop and "unmount" the device. But the actual applet works creating an icon for each device mounted in an horizontal way, which is unpractical.

The most common way is just a simple icon with all the devices attached in a list.
Tags: Applet GNOME

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Solution #1: Make it more configurable.
Written by jorsol the 19 May 08 at 03:26.
It should be configurable (Preference page):

It should have a preference page showing the following check boxs:
* [] USB Flash
* [] Memory Cards
* [] Hard Drives
* [] CD/DVD ROM
* ...
these are the device to be show by the applet.
Also in the preference must have an option to show if the user like the horizontal way (actual behaviour) or a vertical way (List style and recommended).

The List style must be something like this:
* The menu style should be only ONE icon. (the main app)
* The main app expand a Menu with all devices mounted (following the user preference), and then it expand a sub-menu with the actual open and remove (unmount), extract, eject actions.

General behaviour:
* The applet should show the Label of the device mounted NOT the fabricant of the device (ex. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0), if there is no label then it should use the fabricant model.
* If I check USB and CD the applet will show only those I check.
* The icons of the devices should correspond to the device mounted. (USB Logo, CD icon, hard drive icon, memory card icon).

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pyrates wrote on the 19 May 08 at 09:48
Just copy the way windows or os x does it. Is it really that hard to do? Assume some options for certain file systems or cd-rom/dvd-rom drives and put an advanced button for those who want more control.

limcore wrote on the 19 May 08 at 14:29
I was just about to report same/similar issue

For me, I need to have given devices auto mounted to given point.

i.e. to create rules like, for partition with uuid..... AND on usb key with given vendor id - always out mount it to /media/lol

And for other device, mount it to /media/foo, after confirmation (popup with question, like it is now in KDE)

JimmyBEng wrote on the 20 May 08 at 02:11
i like the disk mounter applet with two changes (both of which were mentioned by jorsol).

--Menu form instead of horizontal form
--Ability to ignore hard drives

+1

Ssdg wrote on the 21 May 08 at 09:30
Except for the "by default in iBex",I tottally agree, so +1

rtlong wrote on the 15 Sep 08 at 05:14
Also, it should ask for authentication when a user tries to mount something which he/she is not privileged to mount, instead of just notifying them of that fact.

pyrates wrote on the 12 Oct 08 at 05:08
Just a general question, what is an applet? Do I as a user of Ubuntu need to know what an applet is?


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