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At present when a hard drive partition/USB pendrive/external drive is
unmounted , safe removal notification is displayed inconsistently.
Before the safe removal notification there is a notification that the
"writing data to drive is still going on and to wait". But sometimes
this wait notification is skipped since the small write operation was
over very quickly. So this leads to the user being presented with ONLY
the safe removal notification , thus the user is not notified about
delay due to the write operation.

But when there is no pending write operation, to delay the unmount, the
user is not presented with any notification about safe-removal.

This causes confusion in the regular non-technical user/new users to
Ubuntu , who usually keep waiting for the safe removal notifications to
remove the drive or leads them to double-check the mount status of the
drive before removing the drive

This confusion can be avoided by presenting the "Safe to remove"
notification AT EVERY unmount. And this could be done elegantly using
the notify-osd notifications for every volume unmount regardless of the
delays. The "Wait" notification can also be done using the notify-osd.
Since both these notifications don't require user interactions.

** Affects: gvfs
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
     Assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow)
         Status: Invalid

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Consistent Volume "Safe to remove" notifications
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386057
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