Bug 383678

Summary: Add a little eject symbol next to mounted volumes in Dolphin's Places panel
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: panels: placesAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: elvis.angelaccio, pip.kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149118
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Description Nate Graham 2017-08-19 02:10:30 UTC
A lot of people seem to not realize that Dolphin can eject mounted volumes. You can, of course: Just right-click on it and choose Unmount '<disk>'.

Many people don't seem to think of that. It would be nice if we added a little eject symbol next to mounted disks in the Places panel, so that people could visually see that ejecting is possible, and could furthermore do it with one click.
Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-08-19 12:37:31 UTC
Yep, actions that are available only in context-menus are bad UX.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-08-19 13:40:06 UTC
Here's an additional idea on the same subject that I ran across while screen Dolphin bugs yesterday: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149118

The idea is that when you're using Dolphin to browse a mounted disk, the window would be badged with a horizontal bar saying "Eject" or "safely unmount" or something.
Comment 3 Paul 2017-08-19 14:36:14 UTC
As long as the "Click Happy" don't unmount the current root or home... :)

Personally I think it's better leaving it "hidden" in the context menu.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-08-19 14:39:08 UTC
You wouldn't be able to unmount /, since it's running the OS. /home would likely object as well if you had open files on it (also only a minority of new Linux distro installs create a separate /home partition anyway). And if you were able to unmount /home, you could just click it again from the Places list to re-mount it.
Comment 5 Paul 2017-08-19 15:13:25 UTC
Indeed - You are quite correct.

I apologise for the extraneous noise - must engage brain before writing comment.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2017-09-02 21:59:29 UTC
Duplicate of an ancient bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154499

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154499 ***