Missing Funktion in thunar-volman to unmount a CDROM

Alexandre Moreira alexandream at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 17:37:29 CET 2007


2007/1/18, Alexander Nyakhaychyk <nyakhaychyk at gmail.com>:
> On 18/01/07, Bjoern Martensen <bjoern.martensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It sounds good

Well, as long as it asks the user before doing so, it does sound good.

Unmounting a Cd on which I could have forgotten an opened file, be it
a playing music or video or something like that, without asking me
would be an unpleasant experience.

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.

>
> > grtz,
> > Björn
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