I think could have an option (in nautilus preferences maybe) to show or not the partitions on Desktop. Since you can do this yourself using gconf-editor (apps->nautilus->dekstop) and unchecking the option volumes_visible.
My opinion is that we should have all the partitions at least in "My Computer" view, because it's easier to save or download a file in others partitions. Easier that say to new users: "You should go to /media/hda5 to save your files". -- [feisty] some partitions do not appear in Places menu https://launchpad.net/bugs/73227 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
