safely remove drive

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 10/19/2010 09:06 AM, cornel panceac wrote:
> 2010/10/19 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com <mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>>
>
>       On 10/19/2010 12:49 PM, cornel panceac wrote:
>      > wouldn't it be nice to have a "You can safely remove device" message
>      > displayed for a few seconds every time after you click the option on
>      > the usb drive's right-click menu?
>      > also a message displayed al the time during the sync would complete
>      > the user xperience. imho, of course.
>      >
>
>     Flashing message isn't really necessary, as far as I'm concerned, but
>     KDE already does something along those lines.  When you "eject" from the
>     Device Notifier applet a green check-mark will be displayed for a few
>     seconds afterward when the device can be removed.  It also gives an
>     indication that the sync is going on as a series of rotating "busy" dots.
>
> unfortunately, in gnome it's not the caase, and it happened many times i
> losed files because the sync was not finished yet, even after a few seconds
> after "Safely ...".
>

You should probably file a bug for this then. Lying to the user cannot 
really be considered correct behavior.

Regards,
   Dennis