From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: When a cdrom is inserted into the drive under GNOME, in order to eject the CD I have to right click on the CD device on the desktop and hit 'eject' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CDROM 2.Desire to eject CD-ROM 3. Actual Results: Have to go through non-intuitive steps to eject cdrom. Additional info: A lack of an auto-unmount makes the desktop less intuitive for desktop users used to Microsoft Windows and corporate users targeted with Redhat 8.0.
Well, you have exactly the same problems with floppies and USB drives. Except that you actually can take your floppy back and unplug your USB drive. But the problem is that, as the drives aren't automatically unmounted, you could lose data if you don't unmount them first. So, in those cases, that's even worse than with CD-ROMS because it's hard to figure that you _have_ to unmount those drives.
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