I've sent a patch upstream as part of the work for bug 337441. The patch addresses your first point now, and can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573980
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #573980 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573980 -- gnome-settings-daemon should keep its opinions about my disk management to itself https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390504 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs