ejecting usb devices (aka ipods)

[Martin (KDE)]

Kevin Kofler schrieb:
> On Monday 22 December 2008, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>   
>> I have some troubles with my ipod in FC10 and kde. I can mount and
>> fill music et cetera without a problem, but if I try to savely remove
>> it, either right mousebutton in dolphin, or via the plasma device
>> manager applet, the ipod is dismounted, but not ejected. I see the "do
>> not disconnect" message all the time.
>>
>> If I hit the eject command on the comand line the proper "OK to
>> disconnect" message is shown. Is this a bug or am I missing some
>> fundamental settings.
>>     
>
> Well, you can't really "eject" a USB device, it's just the iPod being weird, 
> it's safe to disconnect it once it is unmounted.
>   

Well, I know that. But in the past (KDE3) this worked. And it is, lets 
say not straight forward, to disconnect a device which claims not to do 
so. Imagine an unexperienced user. What would this user do?

May be there is a clever dbus/udev rule to avoid this situation.

>         Kevin Kofler
>
>   

Martin