| Summary: | Cannot unmount devices inside the New Device Notifier | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | András Manţia <amantia> |
| Component: | widget-devicenotifier | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | notmart, sverik, wstephenson |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | change icon on successful unmount | ||
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Description
András Manţia
2008-03-07 22:22:41 UTC
i propose this: add a second column right to the device entry with an eject icon if the device is mounted +1 On 9 Mar 2008 18:41:51 -0000, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] +1<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Mar 2008 18:41:51 -0000, Marco Martin <<a href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com">notmart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------<br> You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.<br> <br> <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158936" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158936</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ------- Additional Comments From notmart gmail com 2008-03-09 19:41 -------<br> i propose this: add a second column right to the device entry with an eject icon if the device is mounted<br> _______________________________________________<br> Panel-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Panel-devel@kde.org">Panel-devel@kde.org</a><br> <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel</a><br> </blockquote></div><br> The problem is that it depends on the media type if it can be ejected or not... Do you eject a memory card? A floppy? An external hard drive? You can certainly unmount it, but not always eject it. well, an eject icon more or less ives the idea and it's already used in dolphin. and if someone will come up with a nice icon for unmount distinct from the eject one will of course be better (and very easy to implement once we have the general concept working) Also take care that memory cards or external hard drives may not be unmountable. As an example, i've seen eeePCs with memory cards (card reader on the USB bus) that are 'permanently' mounted by fstab as root trigger the device notifier in KDE 3, although the user may not umount them. SVN commit 785555 by mart: adds an eject icon as a second column in the device notifier only for mounted devices: it makes more intuitive to unmount a gived external disk. the look at the moment is: http://www.notmart.org/misc/article_images/devicenotifier_eject.png it's not the final one, the unification with kickoff menu aspect is in the works BUG: 158936 M +91 -34 devicenotifier.cpp M +7 -0 devicenotifier.h M +55 -43 itemdelegate.cpp M +8 -2 itemdelegate.h M +13 -1 notifierview.cpp M +5 -2 notifierview.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=785555 No error handling or checking if umount is actually possible? damn, you're right... now i reopened the review on http://mattr.info/r/285/ it still has problems but i hope should be ironed out quickly Does this fix also tell the user whether umount has finished its job and whether it was successful or not? at the moment if the unmount fails an error message is shown, and if nothing happens means it was successful maybe a passive popup when it's successful? kinda fear that even this would be too annoying, hmm i'll try to do a patch and see if it's terrible or not :) Please notify of successful unmount as well. Now the user does not know what has happened and will try to click again, which mounts the media... Created attachment 24815 [details]
change icon on successful unmount
in this patch when a device is successfully unmounted the computer icon turns
into a kind of v (the one for ok buttons in dialogs, maybe there is a better
icon?) for two seconds, i think other things like popups would be too
intrusive.
don't know how intuitive/immediate it is, but i think it's the less annoying
way :)
SVN commit 810019 by mart: little unobtrusive notification when a device is successfully unmounted done with the change of the devicenotifier icon for two seconds. CCBUG: 158936 M +16 -0 devicenotifier.cpp M +1 -0 devicenotifier.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=810019 And if you happen to look out of the window for two seconds then you don't know the state of the device? I think the New Device Notifier should show these three states of a mountable device: 1. mounted 2. unmounting 3. unmounted reopening the devices list it will show the device icon with the usual mounted overlay or not. it's needed to reopen, but of course there is not enough space to put info on multiple devices in the notifier icon :) |
