Re: Hot plugged volumes in the notification area

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, William Lovaton wrote:

> What do you think about it?  I think it will improve usability in the
> desktop since you have to minimize all your windows to see the new
> available media.

Please! Let's keep the notification area for *notifications*, and not 
start putting in icons that just sit there and do nothing.

BTW based on Davyds proposal some time ago I was under the impression 
that GNOME panel applets/notification icons/launchers were going to be 
"merged" into one kind of applet type. Is this going to happen in the 
not too distant future?

> In fact, this is a fantastic opportunity to tell the user that he have
> to unmount the volume before unplugging it.

Not really. The system should be robust enough to handle hot plugging 
and unplugging, because the user is going to do that regardless.

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