https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/504440

[Jonathan Marsden]

> Of course "Won't Fix" doesn't make it go away. Nobody said it does. The
> situation is simply that there is no reasonable way to fix the issue.
> 
> If you have any better ideas to fix the bug, please post them in the
> report. Thanks.

OK, I just added a comment to the bug, also enclosed below.

Jonathan
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Two ideas:

(1) Is there any way to implement a "reconnect device" option, as
suggested in comment #7 some months ago?

While less than ideal, this would be one way to help people who make
this mistake to recover from it themselves.

(2) Alternatively, a language change to the context menu, so the item
concerned does not say "Safely remove drive", but instead says something
closer to "Power down external device" might help, since it then (a)
sounds a bit scarier and (b) does not look so similar to the Windows
message people are apparently confusing it with.

"Won't fix" seems inappropriate to me. If it can't be "fixed" at a
deeply technical kernel level, fine, let's come up with a way to
minimize the issue at a UI level instead. Not just ignore the problem.