[Bug 41740] Re: not mounted devices lists by nautilus places sidebar

[blaksaga]

I absolutely agree with you Bernat.

However, if you read some of the comments in the upstream bug-report, one of the main reasons why unmounted volumes are shown in the sidebar is because floppy drives and some other media do not mount automatically. (Aren't floppy drives dead yet?).  Really, there should be a way to easily mount media without having to pollute nautilus' sidebar (or the desktop).

Another issue is integration.  If I am in the save dialog in OpenOffice and want to save to a floppy, I would have to open a whole other window just to mount the floppy before saving it.

Even still, I do not like the idea of unmounted media in the sidebar.  Here are my proposed alternative solutions:

1) The sidebar currently has different items of information that can be selected with a drop-down menu (Places, Information, Tree, etc).  Why not include a Media category and display unmounted media there?  It would keep things clean but still allow people to manually mount media.
2) Include a button to mount media in the toolbar.  Upon being pressed, a dialog would open asking which media to mount (cdrom, floppy, etc).  Once the media is mounted, it can be displayed in the nautilus sidebar.  This would provide an easy way to mount media as well as provide easy integration into open/save dialogs.
3) Create a panel applet that would open when clicked and display unmounted media (much like a drawer).  Then there would be no need to open a new window just to mount media.

At the very least, there should be settings in gconf-editor to change the default behavior of nautilus' sidebar.

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not mounted devices lists by nautilus places sidebar
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41740