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gnome-icon-theme package

  1. Bug #406377
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 406377

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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