Re: Drive applet by default

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer andrew cmu edu>]

Is another daemon going to be created in order to do this, something like 
ejectable-device-manager? Regardless of any usability issues, this needs 
to be doable without a new process on the desktop, so that we don't waste 
memory.

-b

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, David Prieto wrote:

> I've noticed that some people coming from windows have trouble removing
> USB devices and the like, because they don't quite know what to do to
> "safely remove the device".
>
> They come from windows and they're used to look into the system tray to
> unmount removable. There's no way for them to know that they have to
> right-click the desktop icon, then navigate the options they're given
> until they find the "secret" (as in "doesn't show on any other desktop
> icon") eject option.
>
> The drive applet offers a handy solution for those people, and remains
> unobstrusive because you don't even see it unless there's a device in,
> but you can access it anytime without having to show the desktop. So I
> think it would be a good thing to have it included on the panel by
> default. Another good solution would be to get a notification balloon
> each time a USB device is inserted, to inform the user about the needed
> procedure, and a second one to inform them that the device can be
> removed, just like windows does.