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** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: unity
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1360102

Title:
  Unity device blacklist nonfunctional

Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Installing 14.04 in a classroom dual-boot environment, Unity shows
  icons for the Windows partitions on the launcher, nonfunctional since
  they require root to mount. Such extraneous icons only serve to
  confuse the user.

  Googling, I found out about the com.canonical.Unity.Devices blacklist
  gsettings entry. I made a script that generates a schema such as this,
  for internal drives:

  [com.canonical.Unity.Devices]
  blacklist=['F236BFEF36BFB349','1A98C11998C0F473','c251a534-47dd-4ecb-a62c-2ced6914ef4a','122357ec-3130-482f-b20e-a4c6522e0873']

  Here's the corresponding output of blkid -o list
  device       fs_type label    mount point      UUID
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /dev/sda1    ntfs    System   (not mounted)    F236BFEF36BFB349
  /dev/sda2    ntfs    OSDisk   (not mounted)    1A98C11998C0F473
  /dev/sda3    swap             <swap>           c251a534-47dd-4ecb-a62c-2ced6914ef4a
  /dev/sda4    ext4             /                122357ec-3130-482f-b20e-a4c6522e0873

  I put the file in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas and ran glib-compile-
  schemas on it. The entry _does_ show up in a user's session as
  evidenced by gsettings get and dconf-editor. dconf-editor also has a
  documentation line for the entry that indicates that this _should_
  indeed prevent the named drives from appearing.

  However, the icons persist in appearing, even on a clean home
  directory (no old user configuration to confuse anything).

  Can this be fixed, or is there another way to prevent Unity from
  showing local internal drives to users who have no means of accessing
  them? Disabling drive icons altogether would be suboptimal but perhaps
  workable too, though it'd be preferable that the removable drives
  would get icons. However, even removing unity://devices from
  com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites didn't prevent the icons from
  appearing (though the same edit did succeed in removing other
  application icons, so the setting itself went through properly).

  lsb_release -rd is:
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04

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