Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-18 Thread ergodic
You can also use the Disk Utility(my preference). It offers a "Safe Removal" option which actually turns the power off to the device. - "Adam Miller" wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:19:28PM -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x, you coul

Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:19:28PM -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x, you could pull in a usb hard drive and > the icon would show on the desktop... > > To safely remove the device, you could right click the icon, and choose > "Safety remove..." > > I

Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/18/2011 04:02 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > On Wed May 18 08:55:52 UTC 2011 Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> In addition to that, gnome-shell-extensions-drive-menu (in Fedora 15 repo) >> can be useful here. > Can you elaborate this, Rahul, please? > > yum search gnome-shell-extension gives to me o

gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-18 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed May 18 06:19:28 UTC 2011 Rob Healey wrote > I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x [snip] > To safely remove the device, you could right click the icon, and choose > "Safety remove..." On Wed May 18 06:26:20 UTC 2011 Adam Williamson wrote: > There's an 'eject' button next to it in the file m

Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/18/2011 11:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:19 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: >> Can someone tell me how to handle this situation the correct gnome3 >> way? > There's an 'eject' button next to it in the file manager, which more or > less does this (it actually does something

Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-17 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 05/18/2011 07:19 AM, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x, you could pull in a usb hard drive > and the icon would show on the desktop... > > To safely remove the device, you could right click the icon, and choose > "Safety remove..." > > In the new and awesome

Re: gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:19 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x, you could pull in a usb hard > drive and the icon would show on the desktop... > > To safely remove the device, you could right click the icon, and > choose "Safety remove..." > > In the n

gnome3 and removable devices...

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Healey
Greetings: I remember that in the old Gnome 2.x, you could pull in a usb hard drive and the icon would show on the desktop... To safely remove the device, you could right click the icon, and choose "Safety remove..." In the new and awesome gnome3, there is a way to have the desktop handle icons