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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: notify-osd => notify-osd (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386057

Title:
  Consistent Volume "Safe to remove" notifications

Status in GVFS:
  New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  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.

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