Safely remove ...

[Temlakos]

On 01/11/2011 03:55 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:00:02 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> Why doesn't Fedora/KDE tell you that you can "safely remove" a USB
>> device when you click on the icon on the right of the little window for
>> the device? Is it just reluctance to follow Bill Gates? I would have
>> thought it was courteous to tell you that.
> 	I can't speak to KDE, but Gnome does -- sometimes. I right-click
> on the disk icon, and the resulting menu often includes an item for
> "Safely remove ..."
>
> 	When I click that, the icon disappears. A release or three ago,
> it used to also put up a message after a little while, on or near the
> bottom panel, saying I could now remove it. That notification seems to
> have gone the way of the tumbleweed.
>
KDE does offer a "safely remove" option. When you click on it, it very 
briefly replaces the USB icon with a checkmark to let you know that you 
may safely remove the device. You have to look sharp; the effect lasts 
about five seconds. Then again, it assumes that you are ready to pull 
the device out immediately.

Temlakos