Devices on GNOME desktop

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

fre, 27.05.2005 kl. 20.42 skrev R.Ramkumar:
> The currently expected behavior of the GNOME 2.8 desktop on Fedora Core 
> 3 is to pop-up a device when it is plugged in (eg. USB stick). But when 
> the user right-clicks and manually selects unmount, plugs out the device 
> and plugs it back in, it does not pop-up again. Instead, if the user 
> plugs out the device without an unmount notification to the desktop, the 
> desktop icon prevails and when clicked, generates an error.
> 
> What is the reason for this? ... and if there is a valid reason, how 
> does the user handle this situation more elegantly? After all, the user 
> might want to plug in the same device twice in a session.
> 
> -- 
> ram_einstein
> FC3
> 
> ram_einstein.blogspot.com

And then there is the "device may popup anywhere at random - including
beneath icons". And, on a crowded desktop as mine, it may be impossible
to find. Would be kind of cool if it did "glow" as windows do in FC4
when they wants to popup. :P

Kyrre