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Unmount removable devices using system tray icon
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Harold Aling 2007-02-01 19:36:21 CET
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As discussed on the Thunar-dev mailinglist:

It would be nice to have a system tray icon present if one or more
removable devices have been mounted that has these features:
- Easy accessible for unmounting devices
- Either right or left click shows all mounted removable devices.
- Selecting a device unmounts it and gives visual feedback that it's safe to remove the device. (like the current notification available in exo/Thunar)
- Produce an error popup (which disappears in X seconds) if a user
does not correctly unmount a removable device before physically removing it (which can lead to data corruption...). Good users will never see this...

Since Thunar is a daemon already and handles the mounting of removable devices, it seems the perfect candidate for such an additional feature.

The current implementation requires an open Thunar window or a visible (/search for) the device's icon on the desktop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2007-02-02 19:48:22 CET
Taking, since I'm working on it.

Benny, do you think this makes sense as something to include in thunar, or would you rather it be a standalone app like what I've written?

If it's gonna go into thunar, I'd recommend making it work on the device level rather than volume/partition level, since unmounting a partition may not mean it's safe to remove the device.
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-02-04 11:47:52 CET
I'd say it makes sense to have this in Thunar, tho I'm not yet sure what's the best way to do it. I'll have to look into this. 
Comment 3 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-10-08 21:50:14 CEST
Use xfce4-volstatus-icon in goodies.  Heh, shoulda closed this a loooong time ago.

Bug #2855

Reported by:
Harold Aling
Reported on: 2007-02-01
Last modified on: 2009-07-17

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
1 user

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