Missing Funktion in thunar-volman to unmount a CDROM

[Bjoern Martensen]

On 1/18/07, Alexander Nyakhaychyk <nyakhaychyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/01/07, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> > Andreas Korzinowski wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am once again :-)
> > >
> > > There is a missing feature by handling a CDROM with Thunar and
> > > thunar-volman.
> > >
> > > If put in a CDROM  in the drive, a Icon apears in Thunar. With one click
> > > on the icon, i
> > > can mount it and have access to it. Very nice, very fast, super !
> > >
> > > But when i want to unmount it with a right-click on the icon, there is
> > > only a item to
> > > eject the cdrom.
> > > There is no way to unmount it without eject.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to add this functionality to the right-click-menu ?
> >
> > Well, of course that "could" be added, but it wouldn't make much sense.
> > Whether a CD-ROM is mounted or not is irrelevant. Either you want to
> > eject it, or you want to keep it in the drive.
>
> Ok. You inserted CDRW disk, mounted them via Thunar. After this you
> want to blank it via Xfburn. Before you can do it, you should unmount
> it, but you can only eject it.
>
> That's why unmount will be useful.

I'd say Xfburn should unmount the disc before it starts writing to it.

grtz,
Björn