[Thunar-dev] A few issues with Thunar volume management

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:27:45AM +0000, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote:
> > Hello, everyone.
> > 
> > I have been using Thunar for a while, and I think by far that it is
> > the best file manager out there --- it's fast, it's simple, and it
> > does what it must.
> > 
> > But I have a problem managing volumes with several partitions in
> > Thunar, using the automatic volume management provided: I have a 512MB
> > external HD with three partitions, which get automounted whenever I
> > plug it in. But:
> > 
> > - Whenever I unmount one of the partitions, the other ones get
> > unmounted too (actually, all the HD). The partition I unmounted
> > disapears from the location sidebar in Thunar, but not the other ones.
> > - If I click on one of the non-unmounted partitions, Thunar will
> > remount it *and* the previously unmounted partition will appear again
> > in the sidebar.
> 
> Yes, that's the expected behavior. Tho, it could indeed be improved.

Yes, even if it clutters a bit the interface, I still think that umounting a
partition is not exactly the same thing as ejecting a device, and thus it
could deserve an independant command.

Btw, xfce4-places-plugin can do just that (it umounts without ejecting), so
one can use it to umount, and use thunar for eject. It means using two
"applications", but it's still a working workaround.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis