Re: [Banshee-List] Three iPod interface issues

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Todd Wilson <twilson csufresno edu> wrote:
> 2.  Under Music in the Sync Preferences for the device, the menu item
> sometimes says 'Sync from "Playlist"', but other times it says 'Sync
> from ???Playlist???'.  When it is the latter, disconnecting the iPod and
> reconnecting it seems always to result in the former (i.e., quotes
> around the playlist name rather than the three question marks).

This was originally reported in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608243 but then appears to
still be an issue.  I thought we tracked it down to either a Mono or
Ubuntu bug a couple weeks ago, but I can't remember/find where.

> 3.  If I open up a terminal window and cd to a directory on the device,
> and then try to disconnect the iPod using the GUI, I just get a message
> "Disconnecting Media Player...", which never goes away.  Of course, I
> understand that the device cannot be unmounted when it is busy, but it
> would be nice if there was a message in the GUI to that effect.  Also,
> there is apparently no timed retry, since when I exit the terminal
> window, the message still continues to display forever -- or at least
> until I click the "Disconnect" button again.

It should indeed have reported an error.  Please file a bug about this.

Gabriel