Re: Drive applet by default

["Jonas De Vuyst" <jdv foobar be>]

On 9/14/06, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> [...]
> What if I close the window but keep the USB drive attached in order to
> access it later in the session?  Do I have to open Computer then scan
> for the drive?  The Place shortcuts are there for a reason: to make
> access of commonly used media faster.

Well, you would also be able to open the drive via the Places menu.

Don't get me wrong though. I do like Ross Burton's suggestion to add a
small eject button to disk items in the Places menu, and long term I
think it would be great to have both systems in place. Right now
though, the API doesn't seem to be there to implement Ross's
suggestion.

> At this point, I'd go as far as suggesting a sub menu for each volume,
> with a "View" item, an eventual "Copy" item (for CD drives) and a
> "Eject/Unmount" entry.

Needing to navigate into a submenu just to open a disk in Nautilus
seems like a huge cost.