Notification applet - Was: Removable storage devices and sync

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

Just out of curiosity: How hard will it be to have a "message applet" in
tray, which connected to dBus, and an backend interface which provided a
bridge to this applet through dBus, providing an interface for the major
programming languages - including BASH. And it should be possible to
specify which user should get the warning - in case of terminal servers
etc.

tor, 28.10.2004 kl. 18.10 skrev David Zeuthen:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:36 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:32:01AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > > Right now, looking at the size is the best heuristic we got, sorry.
> > 
> > No worries.
> > 
> > BTW, even Windows would like you to notifiy it before you yank out
> > an USB device (there is an icon for that in the taskbar), so requesting
> > an umount is nothing unknown in the windows world (although it is
> > not called by that name)
> > 
> 
> Btw, IIRC earlier versions of Windows pops up an evil model dialog box
> telling the user off but I think they changed that as it annoyed users.
> We don't do that right now FWIW. However, this is in no way carte
> blanche for people to not unmount their devices before yanking them out
> - one should always unmount your drives before doing that! The 'sync'
> option is merely to minimize data loss in the event that people don't
> unmount it.
> 
> Cheers,
> David