On 2018-05-09, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 09 May 2018 at 12:50:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote: >> > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> > > >> > > > On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote: >> > > > > On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > > What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely >> > > > > > Remove Drive, and >> > > > > > Eject? >> > > > > >> >> [*SNIP*] >> >> > > >> > > Although it is from a few years ago, the material at >> > > >> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598690 >> > > >> > > could still be useful. Safely Remove Drive and Eject are associated >> > > with DEs, although Xfce seems to manage without them and has unmount as >> > > an only option. >> >> Just got a chance to look at it, has points in common with my problem. >> It, and related bugs, will be worth a detailed read. > > You have *never* explained what *your* problem is. Whatever *you* read > will not make it any clearer to us what the issue is. It is what *we* > read which determines what we have to respond to. Could you not be more > helpful and forthcoming? > >> I'm suspecting that there were explicit choices made that I wouldn't. > > You can suspect what you like. We would like to know exactly what it > is that is exercising you. > >> Or, to paraphrase a truism, "You can satisfy some of the people all of the >> time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not satisfy all of >> the people all of the time." > > Gosh, I wish I had said that! >
You just broke my ironometer. Thanks a bunch.
