Desktop usability: how to unmount devices?

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 20:35 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 6. Add a small icon to the desktop if a device is mounted. Left-click could
>    bring up a Nautilus window with the content, right-click the usual context
>    menu with the unmount option. Same error box here if device is busy.
>    + safe and consistent
>    + MacOS X does this (and they probably know something about easy user
>      interfaces)
>    + GNOME standard
>    + this approach does not really require to immediately open a Nautilus
>      window (which might annoy people, including me :-) )
>    - Icons might be covered by windows
>    - Additional Desktop icons do not fit into the current Desktop policy
This really only solves our problem if dragging to the trash ejects/unmounts 
the device. This is also confusing to users as to why they have to access their
floppy drive from the Computer icon, but all the other drives are available on 
the desktop.  That being said, I've never been a fan of the Computer icon as it is.
I'd prefer to have all the devices (including floppy, if one is defined
in fstab) on the desktop.  This would also solve the confusing of the
Computer icon and the Computer menu.

Nathaniel