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

[David Tombs]

On 01/22/2011 11:25 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> On 01/22/2011 05:56 PM, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> 
>>     If your device pretends to be hotpluggable while it's not, what can
>>     Ubuntu do?
> 
> Ubuntu (nautilus) can avoid presenting a UI that reminds newcomers of a
> Windows "Safely remove..." interface they are already used to, so that
> they do not accidentally power down a device which they cannot in fact
> physically disconnect and reconnect.
> 
> Relabelling this menu item as "Power down external device" is one way to
> do this, now under consideration.
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706436
> 
> Just because there is no low level technical solution does *not* mean
> that an issue or bug cannot be addressed.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

All, let's keep the discussion of the bug in the bug report. It will
just get lost here.

Thanks,
David