Vista partitions don't show on "My Computer"

I agree.

I wonder what the argument for not showing them in Computer is?

A normal user will wonder where his data is.

Thank you for your bug. There no "argument for not showing them in Computer", that's a bug

This looks like a duplicate of bug #73227.

Happens to me too. Auto-mounted partitions are only visible in /media/ not in "Computer", which would be the better, more user friendly behavior imho.
Pretty sure it's that mentioned HAL bug.

Unmilestoning, master bug is fixed.

Can you please unmark this bug as duplicate of #73227 ? As you can read in a comment that I left in that bug, your fix makes my desktop look VERY ugly. I do not ask for the same thing as the bug submittor of that bug did. Please unmark as duplicate this bug and check my screenshot here:
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7297497/desktop.png

What I really want is for the NON-REMOVABLE partitions to be showing up *only* on MyComputer view, and the REMOVABLE partitions to be showing up in the Places and the Desktop and on MyComputer. You must make a DISTINCTION between removable and non-removable volumes. HAL is able to do that. Right now, after your fix, my desktop is a mess.

coul you change your TONE? the desktop team is small and has to deal with thousand of bugs, that's not bad willing we are just way too overworked at the moment that's why we can be slow to update a bug

Eugenia, perhaps this procedure will help you to get what you want:

Launch (via Alt + F2 or terminal) the application 'gconf-editor'. Then, browse in the left tree at apps > nautilus > desktop, and unmark the key 'volumes_visible'. By the way, you can mark the keys 'comuter_icon_visible', and so on if you like these icons in your desktop (I do).

Anyway, I agree that this bug is not a duplicate of #73227, because it talks about showing icons on desktop and #73227 about showing them at the Places menu.

There is a bunch of bugs open about devices and drives listed on the desktop, in the menu, to the nautilus sidebar, etc. I'll register a specification to get that discussed at next UDS so it can get worked next cycle

>perhaps this procedure will help you to get what you want

Thanks for the suggestion Ben, but no, it doesn't do what I want (I am aware of gconf's entries). By unmarking the "volumes_visible", it also makes invisible in the desktop removable volumes, like CDs, SD cards, USB keys. What I really ask is for a distinction between removable and non-removable media. I need the removable media to show on all 3 places in Nautilus, but I need the non-removable ones on MyComputer only. Maybe gconf should have two keys like this instead: volumes_removable_visible and volumes_internal_visible.

>I'll register a specification to get that discussed

Thanks Sebastian.