[Thunar-dev] How to use the eject function

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer, 2008-01-09 at 11:22 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
> > By the way (and this is a new thread I guess), for some devices it's ok to
> > have eject and umount. The only one I'm thinking of is RW CD/DVD where if the
> > cd is mounted you can't blank it. Now you want to unmount it but you can only
> > eject it, so you do that and reinsert it. Now you have activated automounting,
> > and hop, restart the loop.
> 
> No no no no no.  The program (GUI program, presumably) that handles the 
> CD blanking should know how to unmount the CD if necessary.  This is a 
> useless implementation detail, and there's zero reason to expose this in 
> the user interface.  If the user is going to use a CLI program to do the 
> blanking, they're certainly capable of unmounting the CD manually (or, 
> hell, the CLI program should do it for you).  IMO 'Unmount' should 
> *never* be in a user interface that most users see[1].
> 
> 	-brian
> 
> [1] Obviously an advanced GUI disk partitioning/formating/etc. utility 
> type application might have an unmount action, but that's different.

Hmh, yeah, good point. I don't know if there are cases where the GUI
should present both options. I was using wodim when this issue
appeared. 
I don't have too strong feeling in either solution. Sorry for the mess.
-- 
Yves-Alexis