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gnome-icon-theme package

No distinct icons for mount and unmount

Bug #406377 reported by Vish
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Baltix
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned
Nominated for Karmic by Vish
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Karmic by Vish

Bug Description

Both the mounted and unmounted internal partitions use the same icon > device-harddisk

The external volumes also do not change the icons for the unmount and mount states...

Since the icons are shown in the computer:/// , panel and side pane, there is no way to know whether the partition is mounted or not. [well , side pane has the eject icon] but the places menu has no distinction.

So the only way to find out is by actually selecting the partition or from checking the properties.

[this was not the case in earlier , where there were separate icon for both mounted an unmounted partitions]

See original description
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Vish (vish) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, could you add a gvfs-mount -li log to the bug?

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
summary: - [Karmic]Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives
+ Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives

there is no need to open several tasks nor to write the version used in the title, better to use apport to open the bug which would give the exact gvfs informations

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Vish (vish) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gvfs 1.3.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_IN
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Vish (vish) wrote :
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
tags: added: apport-collected
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Vish (vish) wrote : Re: Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives

@Sebastien Bacher:
It is a problem only with Karmic , hence i had added , on hindsight you are right... its not needed.

Attaching the gvfs-mount -li log [gvfs.log]

Vish (vish)
summary: - Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives
+ Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives , no distinction for
+ mount and unmount states
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Vish (vish) wrote : Re: Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives , no distinction for mount and unmount states

In jaunty :
drive-harddisk-usb , and all drive-* labels are used for unmounted drives
gnome-dev-harddisk-usb and all gnome-* > was used for mounted drives

only icon which behaved differently was > the "drive-harddisk" , this was used for mounted filesystems/internal drives
while "gnome-dev-harddisk" was used for unmounted internal partitions

But , In karmic:
drive-harddisk > is used for both mounted and unmounted internal drives and also for filesystem
drive-harddisk-usb > is used for external usb storage devices
drive-removable-media-usb > is used for pen drives

now only the drive-* icons are used for both mounted and unmounted states.

Ideally, the gnome-dev-* icons need to be used for the mount states and the drive-* labels for the unmount states. [as was in jaunty]
This allows easy differentiation of the mount and unmount states

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Seems like the icons new labels have been changed > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506532 but did not reflect this change when i was upgrading but when the system was installed fresh ,for karmic, the new icon names were used

But now we dont have distinction for unmount and mounted device states :(

affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) → gnome-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
summary: - Nautilus "Computer" shows wrong icon for drives , no distinction for
- mount and unmount states
+ No distinct icons for mount and unmount device states
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Vish (vish) wrote : Re: No distinct icons for mount and unmount internal partitions

Ok , sorry for the constant edit.

It seems that now , both mounted and unmounted internal partitions use the same icon device-harddisk.

summary: - No distinct icons for mount and unmount device states
+ No distinct icons for mount and unmount internal partitions
Vish (vish)
description: updated
Vish (vish)
summary: - No distinct icons for mount and unmount internal partitions
+ No distinct icons for mount and unmount
description: updated
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Vish (vish) wrote :

The gvfs authors believe that there is no need to distinguish the mount and unmount state of a drive by using the icon!
But they seem to think that the gazillion new icons that gvfs recognizes is more useful :/ ....

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Ezra Morris (ezramorris) wrote :

OK so it's fine to just pull out mounted media then?

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Vish (vish) wrote :

@Ezra Morris: No! its not safe.
I'v tried to convince the gvfs authors that the separate icons are needed for users to distinguish the states quicker , but they believe it is not needed. So I havent reported it upstream, since it might eventually endup being a wont fix.

This is actually an upstream bug , you might want to report it upstream. Not sure if ubuntu will carry a patch for this.
 You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream. Thanks in advance!

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Vish (vish) wrote :

This is not a gnome-icon-theme bug , the gvfs devs have removed the functionality .
They believe that changing the icon is not something that is needed.

Changed in gnome-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
RajaSekharReddy Genupula (genupulas)
Changed in baltix:
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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